Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who tattooes; especially, one who is expert in the art of tattooing.
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- noun A
tattooist
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Examples
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"Sam told 'im, and Ginger lay still and called the tattooer all the names he could think of; which took' im some time.
Light Freights 1903
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And Nick had similarly found nothing that mentioned tattoos or a tattooer.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Skin Deep Jerome Preisler 2010
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Could they have been clients of the same tattooer?
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Skin Deep Jerome Preisler 2010
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She describes her tattoo as a rite of passage, that she had to affirmatively go to the tattooer and answer questions much like, when she said them, the kinds of questions asked in confirmation ceremonies of many religions along the lines of: do you accept the markings of your people, the pain that they will cause, and the responsibility that wearing them gives you?
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Niklas Kronwall is the tattooer, Martin Havlat is the receiver.
Blackhawks Player Gets Decked | YepYep - Your Daily Waste Of Time 2009
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Like a tattooer, your piercer should wash his hands and put on sterile gloves, and your skin should be cleaned with Betadine before any piercing.
You Being Beautiful Michael F. Roizen 2008
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Like a tattooer, your piercer should wash his hands and put on sterile gloves, and your skin should be cleaned with Betadine before any piercing.
You Being Beautiful Michael F. Roizen 2008
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A declared interest in exploring why Westerners would treat Chinese as an "exotic" language to have otherwise banal phrases branded onto their bodies often appears as more of a sadistic urge to expose the ignorance of the tattooed and tattooer, who bastardize the language through their textual transactions.
Archive 2007-05-01 Jeremiah McNichols 2007
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A declared interest in exploring why Westerners would treat Chinese as an "exotic" language to have otherwise banal phrases branded onto their bodies often appears as more of a sadistic urge to expose the ignorance of the tattooed and tattooer, who bastardize the language through their textual transactions.
I Am Addicted To Hanzi Smatter Jeremiah McNichols 2007
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The sharpened albatross bone used by the Maori tattooer, had five times scored his countenance.
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