house painter
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of house painter
First recorded in 1680–90
Example Sentences
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After immigrating to Australia from the Basque Country, a region that straddles the border between France and Spain, the working-class house painter took roughly 13 years to build the family’s home.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 30, 2025
Which famous artwork was stolen in 1911 by an Italian house painter named Vincenzo Peruggia?
From Slate • Feb. 6, 2024
Sometimes, it is Ms. Devi adding to the smoke with wood fires she burns when her husband, a house painter, has no work and the family has no cash to refill the cooking gas cylinder.
From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2022
The youngest of eight children born to a house painter and a domestic worker living in Oxnard, Taylor likes to refer to himself as “Henry the Eighth.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2022
Around the same time, Vincent took some putty from a house painter who was working around the parsonage.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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