单词 | sign painter |
释义 | > as lemmassign painter sign painter n. ΚΠ 1649 Ἔικων Ảλήθινη 15 He may as well cleare the Moon from its spots, as this act from just censure; which makes me judge him rather a Signe-painter then a Limner. 1725 New-Eng. Courant 15 Feb. 1/2 I would oblige every Sign-Painter to serve seven Years at College, before he presum'd to handle Pencil or Paint-Box. 1814 R. Wilson Private Diary (1862) II. 346 For fear the head should not be recognised as the saint's, a brown cap is put upon it by the sign-painter. 1942 Burlington Mag. Jan. 9/1 Ireland takes this sketch as a proof that Hogarth contemplated setting up as a sign-painter. 2004 S. Hall Electric Michelangelo 75 Greene had seen him in Hagan's Manufacturing in Lancaster on occasion when both were purchasing supplies of ink, knew him for what he truly was, not the sign painter he professed to be. < as lemmas |
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