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  • noun archaic a female painter

Etymologies

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painter +‎ -ess

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Examples

  • Doesn't it occur to those people that it takes time to train a paintress?

    The Gates Of Sleep Lackey, Mercedes 2002

  • -- There is them that's glad enough to go to the Museum, when tickets is given 'em; but some of 'em ha'n't had a ticket sence Cenderilla was played, -- and now he must be offerin ''em to this ridiculous young paintress, or whatever she is, that's come to make more mischief than her board's worth.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various

  • He had met two talented ladies at the dinner, one was a sculptress from Mr. Samuel Merwin's Washington Square and the other was a paintress from Mr. Owen Johnson's Lincoln Square.

    We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914

  • But when she told this to Olive, the young paintress was of a different opinion.

    Olive A Novel Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1856

  • Olive would have it so; for several reasons, the chief of which was, that whether the young paintress was working or not, Mrs. Rothesay might never be out of the sound of her daughter's voice.

    Olive A Novel Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1856

  • There is them that's glad enough to go to the Museum, when tickets is given 'em; but some of 'em ha'n't had a ticket sence Cenderilla was played, -- and now he must be offerin ''em to this ridiculous young paintress, or whatever she is, that's come to make more mischief than her board's worth.

    The Professor at the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • There is them that's glad enough to go to the Museum, when tickets is given 'em; but some of 'em ha'n't had a ticket sence Cenderilla was played, -- and now he must be offerin ''em to this ridiculous young paintress, or whatever she is, that's come to make more mischief than her board's worth.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • Viceroy of Sicily, and several distinguished persons, among whom was the celebrated paintress Sofonisba Anguisciola, then in her 92d year; but the plague breaking out, he returned to Genoa, and thence to his own country.

    Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3) Shearjashub Spooner 1834

  • This celebrated Italian paintress was born at Chiozza, near Venice, in

    Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3) Shearjashub Spooner 1834

  • This celebrated paintress of fruit and flowers was born at Amsterdam in

    Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3) Shearjashub Spooner 1834

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