modelistn.
/ˈmɒdl̩ɪst/, U.S. /ˈmɑdələst/ A maker of models.
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modelist1659
fictor1665
figure-maker1769
modeller1791
formatore1862
1659 in Transcript Reg. Company of Stationers 1640–1708 (1913) II. 222 Entred..under the hand of Master Pulleyn warden a booke called The Compleate Modialest, or a true and exact way of raising the modiall in proportion or out of proportion &c, by Thomas Miller of Great Yarmouth, seaman.
1664 T. Miller (title) The compleat modellist.
1825 J. Hogg Queen Hynde i. 28 Come, modellist, thy toil renew—Such scene shall never meet thy view!
1948 Amer. Lit. 19 306 Too many of our young fellows..are carried away with the false principle of working up the details of a picture to the minutest specification. This is the business of the modelist, not the artist.
1994 Washington Post (Nexis) 4 Aug. b7 Mr. Emshwiller was a wood craftsman, a ship and plane modelist, a painter and a landscape gardener.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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