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Dauber   Listen
noun
Dauber  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter.
2.
(Copperplate Print.) A pad or ball of rags, covered over with canvas, for inking plates; a dabber.
3.
A low and gross flatterer.
4.
(Zool.) The mud wasp; the mud dauber.





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"Dauber" Quotes from Famous Books



... there were here & there some touches which inclined me to hope that the whole piece might be worked up by the same hand. I am sorry to pronounce it has failed: but Ponere Totum is the great secret; and in our exhibitions a common Dauber, possest of that happy knack, will often be attended with tolerable success, and exult at the failure of a superior artist who ...
— A Pindarick Ode on Painting - Addressed to Joshua Reynolds, Esq. • Thomas Morrison
... having popularised, if he did not invent, the word "Socialist" and the cheerfuller one of having faithfully dealt with the thing Socialism. And Jerome is well set off by his still more "Jeune-France" friend Oscar, a painter, not exactly a bad fellow, but a poseur, a dauber (he would have been a great Futurist or Cubist to-day), a very Bragadochio in words and flourish, and, alas! as he turns out presently, a Bragadochio ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 - To the Close of the 19th Century • George Saintsbury
... followed the girl when she patters off to church in the morning?" said Joseph Bridau, a young dauber in Gros' studio. ...
— The Purse • Honore de Balzac
... called, rather, the marks and indentations which the glittering in and out of the tide of social happiness has worn in the rocks of our strand. I would no more disturb the gradual toning-down and aging of a well-used set of furniture by smart improvements than I would have a modern dauber paint in emendations in ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 • Various


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