1826 H. H. Wilson tr. iv. 84 Wealth is her aim; as soon as man is drained Of all his goods, like a squeezed colour bag, She casts him off.
1841 R. W. Emerson Art in 1st Ser. (London ed.) 369 They..console themselves with colour-bags and blocks of marble.
1910 F. Maire 214 The pricked design is pounced over with this color bag.