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Definition of Pavement artist
1. Noun. Someone who draws on the pavement with colored chalks (hoping that passers-by will give them money).
Definition of Pavement artist
1. Noun. (context: espionage) a specialist in outdoor surveillance as a pedestrian ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pavement Artist
Literary usage of Pavement artist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scoundrels & Co. by Coulson Kernahan (1899)
"CHAPTER VIII I BECOME A pavement artist As the Council was to meet again in seven
days, the probabilities were that Number Two would take no further action ..."
2. Highways and Byways in London by Emily Constance Baird Cook (1903)
"There is, it is true, a new and degenerate kind of pavement artist, who, ...
There is also said to be in existence one young lady pavement artist, ..."
3. The English Illustrated Magazine (1899)
"THE name and fame of the first pavement-artist, like that of the premier
oyster-eater, is buried in oblivion. Probably he was some broken-down dauber, who, ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"To the passer-by who watches the pavement artist, the result of his operations
seems nature itself. " Better than I saw not who saw the truth," writes Dante ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"To the passer-by who watches the pavement artist, the result of his operations
seems nature itself. " Belter than I saw not who saw the truth," writes Dante ..."
6. The Potter's Craft: A Practical Guide for the Studio and Workshop by Charles Fergus Binns (1910)
"... exhibit a perfect texture only and is but one degree removed from the skill
of the pavement artist who with colored chalk draws a lamb chop or a banana ..."
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