colourman
Britishnoun
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What colours short of bonâ fide sunbeams it could be painted in, I am not earthly colourman enough to say; but I did not think it had been in the possibility of things.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
"I suppose," he continued, "there would hardly be an artist's colourman in a place of this size?"
From John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman
Mr Kipling as journalist and very efficient colourman in words has made much of India in his time.
From Rudyard Kipling by John Palmer
Whereby I understood that Eustace Cleever, decorator and colourman in words, was blaspheming his own Art, and would be sorry for this in the morning.
From Soldiers Three - Part 2 by Rudyard Kipling
My colourman takes his bill out in drawings, and I think owes me a trifle.
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by William Makepeace Thackeray
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