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Kelly Martinez, People.com, 30 May 2025
The 96 guest rooms are clad in travertine, warm woods, and artwork from contemporary Italian sculptors, painters, and photographers.
—Erica Firpo, AFAR Media, 29 May 2025
His mother was a seamstress, whose deceased first husband had been a sign painter; Whitten inherited his tools.
—Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 29 May 2025
For The Mandarin, Gagliardi and Booth wanted to reference two things; the earth art at the Hopewell Culture in Circleville, Ohio, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the abstract painting of hard-edge modernist painter, Ellsworth Kelly, whose artwork is on view at the Museum of Modern Art.
—Nadja Sayej, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
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Noun
Outside of acting, Swit was a painter and a vocal animal rights activist.
—Kelly Martinez, People.com, 30 May 2025
The 96 guest rooms are clad in travertine, warm woods, and artwork from contemporary Italian sculptors, painters, and photographers.
—Erica Firpo, AFAR Media, 29 May 2025
His mother was a seamstress, whose deceased first husband had been a sign painter; Whitten inherited his tools.
—Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 29 May 2025
For The Mandarin, Gagliardi and Booth wanted to reference two things; the earth art at the Hopewell Culture in Circleville, Ohio, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the abstract painting of hard-edge modernist painter, Ellsworth Kelly, whose artwork is on view at the Museum of Modern Art.
—Nadja Sayej, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
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“Painter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/painter. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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painter
1 of 3 noun
paint·er
ˈpānt-ər 
: one that paints
especially
: an artist who paints
painter
2 of 3 noun
pain·ter
: a line used for attaching or towing a boat
painter
3 of 3 noun
pain·ter
: cougar
Etymology
Noun
from paint (verb) and -er (noun suffix)
Noun
Middle English paynter "a line used for securing a boat," probably from early French pentoir, penteur "clothesline"
Noun
an altered form of panther
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