signpainter

Etymology

From sign + painter.

signpainter means someone who paints signs. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.

noun

Someone who paints signs.“Frank Fisher’s butcher’s shop had been in business, he liked to tell people, for more than 300 years. A while back, a signpainter was commissioned to advertise this fact on an outside wall, in case any strangers should pass through the market town of Dronfield in Derbyshire and feel compelled to stop and inspect a time capsule.”