Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who makes or deals in mosaics.

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  • noun a person who designs or builds mosaics

Etymologies

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mosaic +‎ -ist

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Examples

  • If Fred Tomaselli (b. 1956) had lived during the Byzantine era, he might have been a mosaicist; during the Middle Ages, a miniaturist — a painter of fantastical scenes densely woven out of flora and fauna — decorating the margins of illuminated manuscripts.

    Prospecting Some Personal Landscapes Lance Esplund 2010

  • The 20th-century muralist and mosaicist left her mark on Radio City Music Hall, a passageway in Rockefeller Center, the domes at the National Academy of Sciences and the Washington National Cathedral's Chapel of the Resurrection.

    March arts: DCist photography show and BYT at the Newseum 2011

  • I had originally suggested a mosaic cake because Id seen one on his site, and I am a mosaicist.

    Let Me Eat Cake Leslie F. Miller 2009

  • Crispin is a mosaicist an artist that makes pictures from colored tiles who travels to Sarantium and gets caught up in political intrigue.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Freedomstar 2009

  • Designed by Imagineer Dorothea Redmond and crafted and set in place by a team of six artists led by mosaicist Hanns-Joachim Scharff, the 15 by 10 foot 4.6×3 m, ornate panels are shaped in a Gothic arch.

    Hidden Gems: Mosaic Art at Disney? | The Disney Blog 2009

  • Crispin is a mosaicist an artist that makes pictures from colored tiles who travels to Sarantium and gets caught up in political intrigue.

    Guy Gavriel Kay Freedomstar 2009

  • You'll find Block Drugs on 2nd Avenue and East 6th, across from the old Fillmore East (Village mosaicist Jim Power has seen to it that you can't miss that spot with an installation on the stoplight post commemorating the location).

    Kevin Walsh: Direct and to the Point 2009

  • I had originally suggested a mosaic cake because Id seen one on his site, and I am a mosaicist.

    Let Me Eat Cake Leslie F. Miller 2009

  • A former member, it turns out, is now deceased: the master mosaicist Ambrogio.

    Archive 2007-04-01 2007

  • Ambrogio, a master mosaicist working to restore the church, has been found with his head encased in lime.

    Archive 2007-04-01 2007

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