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Definition of Housepainters
1. housepainter [n] - See also: housepainter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Housepainters
Literary usage of Housepainters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Man by Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1901)
"... like ordinary housepainters'colours, or the characteristic " Kabyle pottery "
of Algeria, are made up with gummy or resinous matter, which, ..."
2. A Documentary History of American Industrial Society by American Bureau of Industrial Research, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Eugene Allen Gilmore, John Rogers Commons, Helen Laura Sumner (1910)
"Mechanics' Association, Norfolk, Va.; Thomas S. Denham, housepainters' Union,
Washington, DC; ..."
3. Publications of the American Statistical Association by American Statistical Association (1916)
"... French slate miners reach an average age of only 48; French mill-stone makers
rarely live beyond 45; the same is pretty generally true of housepainters. ..."
4. Russian Refugees in France and the United States Between the World Wars by James E. Hassell (1991)
"Many others found employment in restaurants as waiters, waitresses, cooks, and
dishwashers. There were milliners, housepainters, paperhangers, ..."
5. The Chinese Repository edited by Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Willaims (1841)
"... but whether any difference be made between artists and housepainters does not
appear. Clas* 8 consists of the peasantry, and day-laborers of all kinds. ..."
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