colourman

/ ˈkʌləmən /

noun

1. a person who deals in paints

Example Sentences

To do this, pin a piece of tracing-cloth over the whole cartoon; this can be got from any artist's-colourman or large stationer.

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No advantage is gained by using expensive colours, they can all be purchased at a good colourman's, and at a small cost.

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Mullers are obtainable of any artist's colourman, they are made in glass, and a convenient size is about one inch in diameter.

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Crass now acted as colourman, having been appointed possibly because he knew absolutely nothing about the laws of colour.

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Mr. Littlejohn could make nothing of it, nor indeed could the artists' colourman, who had been used to pictures all his life.

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