mosaicistn.
/mə(ʊ)ˈzeɪᵻsɪst/, U.S. /moʊˈzeɪᵻsɪst/ An artist or worker in mosaic.
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1830 Lady Morgan France 1829–30 II. 153 Il Cavalier Michel Angelo Barberi,..one of the cleverest mosaicists of the age, had been of our party.
1847 Ld. Lindsay Sketches Hist. Christian Art I. 140 Through the influence of the Byzantine revival, a school of native mosaicists arose in Italy.
1877 M. Oliphant Makers of Florence (ed. 2) iv. 120 Tafi..was more a mosaicist than a painter.
1945 Burlington Mag. Oct. 242/1 When the mosaicists had completed their task in the older part of the atrio..they had still to wait for the completion of the structural work in the new part.
1963 K. Vonnegut Cat's Cradle (1965) 96 The mosaicist was making the fine hairs on the nape of Mona's swan neck out of chips of gold.
1999 Daily Tel. 19 Aug. 15/8 Popular conceptions of Jesus still rest heavily on the works of medieval and Renaissance artists, sculptors and mosaicists.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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