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paintress|ˈpeɪntrɪs|
[ad. F. peintresse, in 15–16th c. also paintresse (Godef.), fem. of peintre painter.]
A female painter; a woman who paints.
†1. A woman who paints or rouges her face. Obs.
1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter iii. 1 As the cunning paintress deals with her face.
2. A woman who paints pictures; a female artist.
1741Corr. betw. C'tess Hartford & C'tess Pomfret (1805) III. 225 We went to see the paintress Rosalba, who is now old. 1836Blackw. Mag. XXXIX. 353 Nature..adorning and touching up, like a paintress, her choice works. 1884H. S. Wilson Stud. Hist. 160 She was a paintress of repute.
b. With of, or a genitive, or n. attrib.
1790H. Walpole Let. to Miss Berrys 10 Oct. (1846) VI. 370, I long to hear that its dear paintress is well. 1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. (1828) III. xxix. 72 This admirable paintress of natural objects. 1880C. Keene Let. in Life (1892) x. 314 A friend..a rattling fine animal paintress.
3. A woman employed in painting pottery-ware.
1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 474 As both males and females are employed in this branch, the men are called painters, the women paintresses: but in blue-painting, where no men are employed, the women are called blue⁓painters. 1893E. L. Wakeman in Columbus (Ohio) Disp. 4 May, One [daughter] may be a ‘paintress’, coloring the cheaper wares. |