pavement artist

American

noun

Chiefly British.

sidewalk artist.

Etymology

Origin of pavement artist

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

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It's a nice life—better than being a pavement artist in Pimlico!

From Innocent : her fancy and his fact by Corelli, Marie

I'm a fust-rate judge of character, though I be but a pavement artist; but a picture's none the less a picture, no matter where it is drawn.

From Vain Fortune by Moore, George (George Augustus)

What is more, in themselves they are as feeble and commonplace as the drawing of a pavement artist, which, in fact, they resemble.

From Since Cézanne by Bell, Clive

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)

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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