painter
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
painter1
▶noun
- 1 an artist who paints pictures.
- 2 a person who paints buildings.
– origin ME: from Anglo-Norman Fr. peintour, based on L. pictor, from pingere ‘to paint’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
painter2
▶noun a rope attached to the bow of a boat for tying it to a quay.
– origin ME: of uncertain origin; cf. OFr. pentoir ‘something from which to hang things’.
'painter' also found in these Oxford entries:
Bellini
- brushwork
- carpaccio
- Daliesque
- face paint
- mahlstick
- painterly
- pictorial
- picturesque
- primitive
- serial comma
- signwriter
- Sunday painter
- Titian
- underdrawing
- Vandyke
