house decorator

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house decorator - a person who specializes in designing architectural interiors and their furnishings

decorator, designer, interior decorator, interior designer, room decorator

specialiser, specialist, specializer - an expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning

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They seemed to him two respectable working men of a superior sort - sign painters or house decorators. The big man got out of a third-class compartment backward, with a bright tin can in his hand.

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"To a master plumber and house decorator, an ironmonger, builder, outfitter, ship furnisher, tailor, boot and shoe retailer, grocer and engineer, four months' exemption was granted.

The fate of those who refused to fight for king and country; During World War I, men who felt they should be exempt from the draft due to poor health, potential damage to their business, family hardship or a conscientious objection had to apply to a tribunal, which would decide whether or not they should be conscripted. Marcus Hughes looks back at some local cases

GREAT WAR The applicant was a house painter about 30 years of age, residing in Baker Street, who sought compensation at the rate of 19s 8d a week from Herbert T Hunt, a master painter and house decorator, of Peel Street, in respect of personal injuries sustained in October last.

Stories from the ECHO during the war years; War Diary: April 4, 1916

Cuomo's last fundraising trip to Los Angeles, in November of 2011, netted him $500,000 at an evening fundraiser at the home of White House decorator Michael Smith and then-HBO executive James Costos, now America's ambassador to Spain.