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A plasterer. Formerly also: †a whitewasher (obsolete). Now chiefly historical.
A person employed to paint or render walls, buildings, etc., with white lime (white lime, n. 1).
A person who applies whitewash to walls, buildings, etc.
a whitewasher, or wall-colourer.