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rhyparographer|rɪpəˈrɒgrəfə(r)| Also 7 ry-, ri-. [f. late L. rhyparographos, = Gr. ῥυπαρογράϕος, f. ῥυπαρός filthy: see -grapher. Cf. F. riparographe (Cotgr.).] A painter of mean or sordid subjects.
1656Blount Glossogr., Rhyparographer..Ryparographer. 1694Motteux Rabelais v. Prol. A 6 b, That [office] of Puny Riparographer, or Riffraff-scribler of the Sect of Pyrricus. 1885Sat. Rev. 23 May 675 Our bodies..are ‘vile’, and he or she who paints them is a Rhyparographer. 1891Farrar Darkness & Dawn II. lvii. 242 The rhyparographer Pyroeicus. So rhypaˈrographist; rhyparographic |ˌrɪpərəʊˈgræfɪk| a., characteristic of a rhyparographer.
1886Saintsbury in Academy 3 Apr. 234/1 She takes a sort of Naturalist delight in describing the most sordid..features of the least attractive kind of English middle-class life, and..never misses a rhyparographic touch when she can introduce one. 1891Farrar Darkness & Dawn I. xv. 125 Frescoes painted by the most famous rhyparographists. |