housepainter
noun
house·paint·er
ˈhau̇s-ˌpān-tər 
: one whose business or occupation is painting houses
Examples of housepainter in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
John is a housepainter John works as a housepainter and spent 13 years building the Elordi family’s house himself.
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Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 3 Nov. 2023
Braque’s housepainter past has long been part of the Cubist mythos, often leveraged into a kind of workingman street cred, but here it is granted a particular and critical role.
—Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022
His brother, a professional housepainter, will change the color of a big wooden cube periodically.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 31 Mar. 2022
Eventually, Jones became a housepainter to support and raise his grandchildren.
—Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2021
Fischbacher was born in Rosenheim, Germany, in 1939 to a homemaker mother and a housepainter father.
—Tyler Van Dyke, Washington Examiner, 14 Jan. 2021
His father was a housepainter, a still somewhat profitable trade in a city where aging clapboard buildings were common.
—Ian Volner, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2020
Gary Simons, the son of a housepainter and a homemaker, had just been hired as a teacher at P.S. 140, an elementary school in the Bronx, his home borough.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2020
The drummer and housepainter skates to his own beat.
—BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2019
Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 3 Nov. 2023
Braque’s housepainter past has long been part of the Cubist mythos, often leveraged into a kind of workingman street cred, but here it is granted a particular and critical role.
—Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022
His brother, a professional housepainter, will change the color of a big wooden cube periodically.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 31 Mar. 2022
Eventually, Jones became a housepainter to support and raise his grandchildren.
—Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2021
Fischbacher was born in Rosenheim, Germany, in 1939 to a homemaker mother and a housepainter father.
—Tyler Van Dyke, Washington Examiner, 14 Jan. 2021
His father was a housepainter, a still somewhat profitable trade in a city where aging clapboard buildings were common.
—Ian Volner, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2020
Gary Simons, the son of a housepainter and a homemaker, had just been hired as a teacher at P.S. 140, an elementary school in the Bronx, his home borough.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2020
The drummer and housepainter skates to his own beat.
—BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2019
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Word History
First Known Use
1688, in the meaning defined above
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“Housepainter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/housepainter. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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