rosemaler

/ˈɹəʊzəˌmɑːlə/

rosemaler means A person who practises rosemaling.

rosemaler is pronounced /ˈɹəʊzəˌmɑːlə/.

Etymology

From rosemaling + -er; or borrowed from Norwegian Bokmål rosemaler, from rose (“rose”) + male (“to paint”) (cognate with Old Danish malæ (Danish male), Old Norse mála, Old Swedish mala (Swedish mala), from Middle Low German mālen (“to paint”)) + -er (“-er, suffix indicating a person or thing that does an action indicated by the root verb”).

noun

A person who practises rosemaling.“Vesterheim, the Norwegian American Museum in Decorah, Iowa, […] sponsored a national exhibition of rosemaling in 1967 and began inviting Norwegian masters to the museum to give workshops to grassroots rosemalers.”