rosemaler

English
Fyrileivstugo, the interior of a living room from 1932 produced by Olav Fyrileiv, a woodcarver and rosemaler. It is in the collection of the Heddal Open Air Museum in Notodden, Telemark, Norway.

Etymology

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”).

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Noun

rosemaler (plural rosemalers)

  1. (US) A person who practises rosemaling.
    • 2006, Philip Nusbaum, “Rosemaling”, in Richard Sisson, Christian Zacher, and Andrew [R. L.] Cayton, editors, The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 410:
      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.

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