Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun pl. colormen, colourmen (-men). One who prepares and sells colors.
- noun In leather manuf., the man who mixes the dyes. Most factories have a special workman who attends to this.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A vender of paints, etc.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
colourman .
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Examples
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My colorman, Bill Raftery, motioned with his hand at Mullin.
Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories Len Berman 2011
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My colorman, Bill Raftery, motioned with his hand at Mullin.
Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories Len Berman 2011
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My colorman, Bill Raftery, motioned with his hand at Mullin.
Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories Len Berman 2011
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In 1801, William Dyer, a drysalter, colorman, and correspondent of Joseph Priestley and other scientists in Britain, reduced fifty years of diary-keeping to two volumes of tantalizing abstracts about his work and interests. 11 As a result, we have only hints about his venture to produce and sell the pigment known as Spanish brown.
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Perhaps the Florentinerlack supplied by Schäffer's colorman did not look the same as the carmine he sold; but perhaps for another different colorman Florentinerlack and carmine were more similar.
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Because it is one of a few publications that can be connected to an eighteenth-century colorman and the only one that offers to bring French technique to a London clientele, we need to consider seriously its claims and its contents.
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Diligent use of publications could substitute for training at the academies, famously exclusive institutions. reference de Massoul also provides a list of supplies to present to the colorman, should the reader decided to teach her or himself.
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August-Ludewig Pfannenschmid was a colorman who worked in or near Hanover in the later eighteenth century.
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Constant de Massoul was an artist's colorman who operated a shop on Bond Street in London at the end of the eighteenth century.
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This strategy parallels our understanding of the production of colors in the workshop, where access to materials and skills lead to results with specific qualities — cudbear, for example, or Viquesnel's carmine, or the Spanish yellow the London colormaking firm Louis Berger made exclusively for the London-based artist's colorman James Newman. 9 This strategy recognizes the skill of the artisan as well.
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