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colourist

British  
/ ˈkʌlərɪst /

noun

  1. a person who uses colour, esp an artist

  2. a person who colours photographs, esp black-and-white ones

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Several people I spoke to after the screening enjoyed the movie with Jan, a film colourist from Warsaw calling it "a classic western".

From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2024

"I'm so glad glamour is returning," says Hollywood hair colourist to the stars, Erick Orellana.

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2022

Water colourist Robert Newcombe was one of 20 artists invited by the BBC to provide their interpretation of the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant from the Millennium Bridge in London.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2012

But Sandby also uses his skills as a consumate colourist to show the differing textures of brick, stone, wood and foliage.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 5, 2011

His own style as a colourist held much more of the Venetian than of any other Italian school, and he admired his prototypes with a zeal and exclusiveness that sometimes bordered on extravagance.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" by Various

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