paintership

English

Etymology

painter +‎ -ship

Noun

paintership (usually uncountable, plural painterships)

1. The state or position of being a painter.
   • 1535, Stephen Gardiner, De vera obedientia:

     Admit also a curious cunning painter, to be chief painter, let him strive also to continue still in his chief paintership, lest another pass him in cunning, and so have the name of chief painter from him, because he is more worthy than he.

Anagrams

• anti-shipper