pavement artist

American  

noun

Chiefly British.

1. sidewalk artist.

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Etymology

Origin of pavement artist

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

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)

He was a pavement artist and he had a pitch outside the railings of the great terminus in Euston Road, where he used to sit and patronise London.

From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by Murray, David Christie

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

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)

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