colourman

/ (ˈkʌləmən) /


nounplural -men
  1. a person who deals in paints

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How to use colourman in a sentence

  • 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.

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

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

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