单词 | colourman |
释义 | colourmancolormann. 1. A person who sells and (formerly) prepares artist's paints. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in other specific articles ironmonger1164 ointer1263 bowyer1297 jewellera1382 fletcher1457 stapler1532 India merchant1618 tobacconist1657 colourman1663 tobacconer1701 lamp-man1704 drysalter1707 snuffman1723 wet-salter1725 potman1732 material man1778 tobacco-trader1840 dogman1860 stamp-dealer1863 waste-dealer1876 pearler1881 the world > matter > colour > colouring > colouring matter > [noun] > dealer in colours colourman1663 colour seller1685 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > paints > dealer in colours colourman1663 colour seller1685 1663 R. Head Hic et Ubique i. iii. 8 Were you not a Colour-man in Corn-hill, London? 1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions p. lvii A Colour-man in the Strand. 1755 Gentleman's Mag. May 233/1 Justice Quarril, an oil and colour-man in Whitechapel. 1798 W. Jackson Four Ages 346 If a painter were ever so skilful he could do nothing without the colourman. 1856 W. Collins Rogue's Life in Househ. Words 8 Mar. 181/1 I gave my orders to the colourman and settled..with..the artist that day. 1875 T. Seaton Man. Fret Cutting viii. 105 The brown pigment is well known to artist's colourmen as Cassel earth. 1936 Burlington Mag. Sept. 140/2 The impatient practising artist of to-day..no doubt will continue to buy his paints at the colour-man's. 1988 Artist's & Illustrator's Feb. 16/2 They are available from a specialist artist's colourman by mail order. 1997 Daily Tel. 17 Oct. 25/2 Van Gogh could move to the South of France and simply write to his colourman, asking him to send 18 tubes of different shades of chrome yellow. 2. A person employed to work with paint or colour; esp. a commercial painter or colourer. Now rare. ΘΚΠ 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 1764 Beauties of all Mag. Sel. III. 539/2 Who could ever imagine that colour-men, cabinet-makers, frame-makers, brokers, and house-painters, could have the assurance to undertake so nice an affair as to put to rights a damaged picture. 1773 J. Wedgwood Let. 9 Feb. in Sel. Lett. (1965) 142 Training up as a fireman, Glosser, Color man, Plinther. 1821 Domest. Encycl. 130/2 The colour-man..mixes the colouring material with the finely powdered flux, which is daubed over the copper plate. 1882 Athenæum 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. 1917 H. Bleackley Life J. Wilkes xii. 193 The glaziers, colourmen, and tallow-chandlers..had reaped a splendid harvest. 1963 J. I. Biegeleisen Compl. Bk. Silk Screen Printing Production x. 128 While the job is in production,..it is the job of the color man to continue to check results. 3. camp colour-man: see camp n.2 Compounds 2. 4. U.S. Broadcasting. A commentator, esp. for a sporting event, who supplements the main commentary with background information, expert analysis, etc. Cf. colour commentator n. at colour n.1 Compounds 4. ΘΚΠ society > communication > broadcasting > broadcaster > [noun] > types of co-host1908 announcer1922 newsreader1925 race-reader1926 newscaster1930 sportscaster1930 quizzee1933 school broadcaster1937 commentator1938 racecaster1938 sportcaster1938 femcee1940 record jockey1940 disc jockey1941 narrator1941 deejay1946 colourman1947 anchorman1948 host1948 jock1952 speakerine1957 presenter1959 linkman1960 anchorwoman1961 rock jock1961 anchor1962 jockey1963 voice-over1966 anchorperson1971 outside broadcaster1971 news anchor1975 talk-master1975 satcaster1982 1947 Billboard 8 Feb. 13/4 Sportscasters shall be paid $125 per event for play-by-play; $85 for ‘color men’. 1964 Daily Rev. (Hayward, Calif.) 28 Feb. iii. 1/1 His role as neophyte colorman..is more than an incidental part of his public relations chores... Now 37, the former Golden Boy has ambitions of becoming a network TV sports commentator. 1979 R. Magowan Tour de France i. 33 Most of the French media cover the Tour with a car-size, four-man team: sports reporter, colour man, interviewer, plus a jack-of-all-trades chauffeur. 2005 J. MacGregor Sunday Money xiii. 336 Up in the NBC booth, color man Benny Parsons is incredulous. ‘This can't be happening!’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1663 |
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