pavement artist

American  

noun

Chiefly British.

1. sidewalk artist.

---

Etymology

Origin of pavement artist

First recorded in 1895–1900

---

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

pavement artist

Fra Angelico, as an irreverent pavement artist, was Culling's artistic parent for the time being.

From The Sixth Sense A Novel by Stephen McKenna

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 Thomas Hardy

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 Clive Bell

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 Henry Sessions Souttar

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 George (George Augustus) Moore

Random Word

Spin the wheel and learn a new word!

---