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ˈcolour-box
1. A box of colours, a portable box for holding artists' colours, brushes, etc., a paint-box.
1842C. Ridley Lett. (1958) ix. 104 We had such a nice morning today cleaning our colour boxes like old times. 1847C. Brontë J. Eyre III. iv. 102 They discovered I could draw: their pencils and colour-boxes were immediately at my service. 1926–27Army & Navy Stores Catal. 441/1 Japanned tin colour box and water bottle.
2. Calico printing. The box which supplies colour to the printing rollers.
1858–75Ure Dict. Arts I. 604 Sometimes for the highest rollers, and especially in machines of more than four colours, the cumbrous colour box is dispensed with, and a doctor inserted in a curved frame is applied to the roller instead. Ibid. I. 607 The machine printer..attends to supplying the colour boxes with colour.
3. An instrument devised by Clerk Maxwell for compounding the colours of the spectrum in any required proportion.
1870C. Maxwell Let. 6 July in Life (1882) 346, I made a great colour-box in 1862, and worked it in London in 1862. 1882Ibid. 475 His colour-box demands a special notice. |