Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who paints.
- noun A panther: applied in the United States to the puma, cougar, or American lion, Felis concolor.
- noun A rope attached to the bow of a boat, and used to fasten it to a stake, a ship, or other object.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) A rope at the bow of a boat, used to fasten it to anything.
- noun (Zoöl.), A form representing an illiterate pronunciation, U. S. The panther, or puma.
- noun One who covers buildings, ships, ironwork, and the like, with paint.
- noun An artist who represents objects or scenes in color on a flat surface, as canvas, plaster, or the like.
- noun (Med.) See Lead colic, under
Colic . - noun A member of a livery company or guild in London, bearing this name.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
artist whopaints pictures. - noun A
laborer or workman who paintssurfaces using apaintbrush or other means. - noun nautical A
rope connected to thebow of a boat, used to attach it to, e.g. ajetty or another boat. - noun A
mountain lion , by mispronunciation of "panther ".
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a worker who is employed to cover objects with paint
- noun an artist who paints
- noun a line that is attached to the bow of a boat and used for tying up (as when docking or towing)
- noun large American feline resembling a lion
Etymologies
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Examples
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Well, if the painter hath not dissembled in it -- the _painter_?
The Bride of Fort Edward Delia Bacon 1835
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But I _particularly_ and _expressly request_ that it be kept in a private room to be shown _only_ to friends and relations, and that I _may never be mentioned as the painter; _ and, moreover, that no _artist_ or _miniature painter_ be allowed to see it.
Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume I. 1831
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I've always admired Neel for pursuing portraiture in an age when representative art was deemed irrelevant, when everyone was chasing after Abstract Expressionism, when it was claimed the camera had "freed" the painter from the "tyranny of realism."
Confessions of an Uncouth Beast greygirlbeast 2010
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The painter is still in her beginning and has never had an exhibition.
Global Voices in English » Libya: Women, Writers and Artists 2009
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IRMA STERN "Bahora Girl," 1945, Estimate: $950,000 to $1.4 million Ms. Stern's skill as a portrait painter is evident here.
Art in South Africa 2010
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This Dutch post-Impressionist painter is probably best known, by the general public, as the deeply depressed man who sliced off his ear and sent it to a prostitute that he was in love with.
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I've always admired Neel for pursuing portraiture in an age when representative art was deemed irrelevant, when everyone was chasing after Abstract Expressionism, when it was claimed the camera had "freed" the painter from the "tyranny of realism."
Confessions of an Uncouth Beast greygirlbeast 2010
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Bouguereau was a French painter from the 19th Century; very academic, very traditional, very romantic.
Jersey City Artist Graham McNamara Talks About His Work, the Studio Tour, and the Business of Art The Jersey City Independent 2010
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Friedensreich Hundertwasser, the famous Austrian architect and painter, is widely renowned for his revolutionary, colourful architectural designs which incorporate irregular, organic forms, e.g. onion-shaped domes.
Archive 2008-05-01 The Nag 2008
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The work of the Hard-Edge painters, their first collective exhibition catalog in 1959 asserted, runs counter to a widespread contemporary belief in the primary value of emotion and intuition in esthetic experience … the [Hard-Edge painter] is not preoccupied with art as an opportunity to make autobiographical statements.
California Cool 2008
MaryW commented on the word painter
Mark Essig, Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig (New York: Basic Books, 2015), ch. 11.May 9, 2016