colourercolorern.
/ˈkʌl(ə)rə/, U.S. /ˈkələrər/ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [noun] > one who or that which dissembles
feigner1382
pseudo1402
simular1526
simuler1534
colourer1554
counterfeiter1561
truphane1568
counterfeit1574
put-forth1581
pretender1583
impostor1586
idol1590
would-be1607
phantasm1622
farce1696
imposture1699
Barmecide1713
simulator1835
fraud1850
sham1850
fake1855
swindle1858
shammer1861
make-believe1863
hoax1869
economizer1874
make-believer1884
ringer1896
phoney1902
faker1910
shill1976
1554 J. Knox Faythfull Admon. sig. C5v Those crafty colourers could so cloke their malice against God & his trueth, and their holowe hertes towarde their louinge maisters.
a1576 L. Nowell Vocabularium Saxonicum (1952) 97/1 Hiwere, a dissembler, a colourer of matters, an hypocrite.
1591 W. Garrard & R. Hitchcock Arte of Warre 334 A cunning Colourer of his Princes affayres of importance, & of a singular and good inuention.
1602 T. Lodge tr. Josephus Wks. 446 He was a verie cunning dissembler, and colourer of his lies, and most impudent in his assertions.
a1680 J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) ii. 39 Colourers, Changers, Perverters of the Face of things.
1687 T. Tenison Difference Protestant & Socinian Methods Introd. 4 There appear amongst the Romanists, Misrepresenters and crafty Softners and Colourers of their own Doctrine.
2. A person who applies paint or colour to something; a commercial painter, esp. a person who colours maps, prints, etc. Now chiefly historical.figurative in quot. 1612. With quot. 1686 cf. colourist n. 1.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > colour > colouring > [noun] > person or thing that colours
colourer1612
complexioner1612
tinger1683
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > art of colouring > [noun] > colourer or colourist
colourer1612
colourist1685
colourman1764
tinter1823
polychromist1842
tetrachromist1842
tonist1883
tintist1890
1612 W. Parkes Curtaine-drawer 4 Tobacco..now made..the drunken colourer of Drabby salary.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia at Pictor (Lat.) a Painter or colourer.
1686 W. Aglionby Painting Illustr. (new ed.) ii. 84 He understood little of Composition..but was an admirable Colourer.
1755 G. M. A. Baretti tr. in Introd. Ital. Lang. 35 There is need of colourers of chairs, painters of drinking-glasses.
1796 Hull Advertiser 30 Jan. 1/1 Wholesale and retail Paper Hanging Manufacturers, and licenced Colourers.
1848 Florist 1 318 Fresh flowers were twice sent to the colourer, but he has failed to copy them correctly.
1883 Cent. Mag. Mar. 665/1 He had a large majority of the Oberammergau villagers working under his direction as both carvers and colorers in this business.
1901 Daily Chron. 3 Dec. 10/7 (advt.) Colourer, good stenciller, female, wanted.
1955 Past & Present 7 80 One of those arrested at the same time as Despard had been a certain Thomas Evans, a colourer of prints.
1998 P. J. Marshall in N. Canny Origins of Empire xii. 284 The Company tried to teach Indian weavers and colourers of textiles to conform to European fashion.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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