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Definition of Sign painter
1. Noun. Someone who paints signs and billboards etc..
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sign Painter
Literary usage of Sign painter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Biographical History of Lancaster County: Being a History of Early by Alexander Harris (1872)
"... of remarking the intense agony that seized him when the sad tale of the sign
painter's suicide was brought to his ears, occasioned by unrequited love. ..."
2. Old Tavern Signs: An Excursion in the History of Hospitality by Fritz August Gottfried Endell (1916)
"Usually this cubistic pattern decorates the signpost standing in front of the
alehouse, as seen in our design of the sign-painter ..."
3. A guide to the study of occupations: a selected critical bibliography of the by Frederick James Allen (1921)
"sign painter ALLEN. Advertising as a Vocation, 49, the sign man; and 114, sign
painting and lettering. McKEON and SCHOFIELD. Sign, Carriage, and Decorative ..."
4. Graham's Magazine by Graham, George R, Edgar Allan Poe, John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1852)
"At length, when the sign-painter took another brush full of blue paint to plaster
on, the spectator could endure it no longer, and exclaimed severely— " Too ..."
5. The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and by John Clark Ridpath (1903)
"At the age of fifteen he made his way to Cincinnati, where he learned the trade
of a sign-painter; and not long afterward he became a portrait-painter in ..."
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