Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In leather manuf., the man who mixes the dyes. Most factories have a special workman who attends to this.
  • noun pl. colormen, colourmen (-men). One who prepares and sells colors.

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

  • My colorman, Bill Raftery, motioned with his hand at Mullin.

    Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories Len Berman 2011

  • My colorman, Bill Raftery, motioned with his hand at Mullin.

    Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories Len Berman 2011

  • My colorman, Bill Raftery, motioned with his hand at Mullin.

    Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories Len Berman 2011

  • 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.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • 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.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • 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.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • 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.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • August-Ludewig Pfannenschmid was a colorman who worked in or near Hanover in the later eighteenth century.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • Constant de Massoul was an artist's colorman who operated a shop on Bond Street in London at the end of the eighteenth century.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • 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.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

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