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ˈcolour-man
1. One who deals in colours, a colour-seller.
1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. p. lvii, A Colour-man in the Strand. 1755Gentl. Mag. XXV. 233 Justice Quarril, an oil and colour-man in Whitechapel. 1856Dickens Rogue's Life ii, I gave my orders to the colourman and settled..with..the artist that day.
b. A colourer.
1882Athenæum 8 July 51/2 A Map of the Mediterranean..mainly remarkable for the fact that the colour man has quite forgotten the alteration of the northern frontiers of Greece.
c. camp colour-man: see camp n.2 VII. b.
1859F. Griffiths Artil. Man. (1862) 34 A camp colour-man per company. |