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▪ I. ˈcamerist1 nonce-wd.
[app. a. F. camériste chamber-woman, ad. It. camerista, f. camera chamber.]
Chamber-woman, lady's maid.
1838New Month. Mag. LII. 515 The fraternal camirist attacked the hair of her sister with combs, brushes, perfume, and all the tact of a genuine artiste.
▪ II. camerist2 Chiefly U.S.|ˈkæmərɪst|
[f. camera 3 b + -ist.]
One who uses a camera, a photographer.
1890Anthony's Photogr. Bull. III. 19 Theoretically, all camerists believe in a good negative. 1891Ibid. IV. 85 A steady head is often needed to keep an enthusiastic camerist from being unduly depressed or exalted. 1906Westm. Gaz. 15 May 12/3 Many of the pictures..are excellent examples of artistic photography... They have been taken by camerists..whose names are thoroughly well known. 1921Chambers's Jrnl. Aug. 547/1 The camerist determines on some other makeshift foreground. 1936Discovery June 191/2 The trick manœuvres of the ‘camerist’ in contracting or expanding the dimensions of time and space. |