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- noun The
painting ofhouses , the trade of ahousepainter .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The proposed legislation would raise VAT rates in a curious assortment of categories, including housepainting and some restaurant meals, to 7% from their previously "reduced" rate of 5.5%.
French Tax Attack 2011
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I was limited to about six cans of industrial-strength enamel paint, all in rather strong colors, and three oversize housepainting brushes, each in various stages of gunk.
2009 June | the blog of author, illustrator and designer Kris Waldherr 2009
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BUT, when housepainting, I can park the ladder under a window and paint the trim with either hand.
Abe in Two James Gurney 2009
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At dinner, Myra said We need to get the housepainting done.
MORE FROM GINNY BATES: SETTING UP HOUSE Maggie Jochild 2007
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Looks like Meade will be doing some housepainting in Madison.
It's too early for any color on the redbuds of Madison, Wisconsin. Ann Althouse 2009
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I was limited to about six cans of industrial-strength enamel paint, all in rather strong colors, and three oversize housepainting brushes, each in various stages of gunk.
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Her father on the other hand hired men pretentiously called gardeners and they did plant special trees and gaudy bushes, all of which usually soon died, but were easily recognized as being the same guys who did freelance masonry, housepainting, and roofing, and on Friday nights played cards with their employer.
The Houseguest Thomas Berger 2008
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He married and started a family and eventually built up a successful housepainting business.
A NATION OF IMMIGRANTS TRIES TO SLAM SHUT THE GOLDEN DOOR 2006
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I know nothing of housepainting obviously, it seemed like a good example at the time.
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Soon he had a union job painting radio towers, then a housepainting business on the side.
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