paper-stainer

To prevent starving, Architecture hired herself as a brick-layer's {23} labourer to a Chinese temple-builder; Painting took on as a colour-grinder to a paper-stainer; Poetry turned printer's devil;

A Lecture On Heads As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812 Geo. Alex. Stevens 1893

"Good-bye, paper-stainer," said the matron, as, after looking up and down High Street, I strode off towards the bridge, Londonwards.

Faces and Places 1884

May no learned or unlearned calf write against your knowledge and wit, and no brother paper-stainer pilfer your pages, and then call you a general thief!

The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) Christopher Marlowe 1578

"Of course I want you to answer it, my dear old paper-stainer and decorator.

Bones in London Edgar Wallace 1903