colourist
Britishnoun
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a person who uses colour, esp an artist
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a person who colours photographs, esp black-and-white ones
Other Word Forms
- colouristic adjective
Example Sentences
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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
The former hair colourist outlined her recollections of the alleged attack, which began after a Christmas night out with work colleagues on 8 December 2018.
From BBC
"I'm so glad glamour is returning," says Hollywood hair colourist to the stars, Erick Orellana.
From BBC
In the past five years I must have spent upwards of $6,000 for a salon colourist to saturate my scalp with ammonia and hydrogen peroxide every six or eight weeks.
From The Guardian
“It’s not that their views can’t change or that they shouldn’t speak up for what they want, it’s about selective and performative activism especially when they have at some point propagated a colourist attitude in their own country,” read another response.
From The Guardian
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