pavement artist
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of pavement artist
First recorded in 1895–1900
Example Sentences
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Even the pavement artist will destroy his work rather than allow some poor wretch to sit beside his pictures and collect an alms.
From A Surgeon in Belgium by Souttar, Henry Sessions
Because there is a decadent art about, one need not make a hero of the pavement artist.
From The Practice and Science of Drawing by Speed, Harold
Hubert now saw that the handkerchief was filled with bits of coloured chalk, and guessed that the man must be a pavement artist.
From Vain Fortune by Moore, George (George Augustus)
He saw no more to move him, he declared, in the time-defying presentations of Perugino, Titian, Sebastiano, and other statuesque creators than in the work of the pavement artist they had passed on their way.
From The Well-Beloved by Hardy, Thomas
Fra Angelico, as an irreverent pavement artist, was Culling's artistic parent for the time being.
From The Sixth Sense A Novel by McKenna, Stephen
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