English: from Middle English, Old French peinto(u)r,
oblique case of peintre ‘painter’, hence an occupational name
for a painter (normally of colored glass). In the Middle Ages the
walls of both great and minor churches were covered with painted
decorations, and Reaney and Wilson note that in 1308 Hugh le Peyntour
and Peter the Pavier were employed ‘making and painting the pavement’
at St. Stephen’s Chapel, Westminster. The name is widespread in
central and southern England.German: topographic name for
someone living in a fenced enclosure (see Bainter).
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