colourman

/ ˈkʌləmən /

noun

1. a person who deals in paints

Example Sentences

In April, 1822, he is arrested at the instance of his colourman, “with whom I had dealt for fifteen years,” and in November of the same year he is arrested again at the instance of “a miserable apothecary.”

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"A subsidy from the State, of course——" Then the miner, but not to Walter— "I' t' daylight, proddin' 'em up wi' a stick—to say nowt o' Port Skillian bathin'-place of a fine Sunda'——" "That hoary old lie, that Socialism means sharing——" "Oh, at any artists' colourman's——" "No; it will probably be published privately——" "Van Gogh——" "Oh, you're entirely wrong!——"

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But at the end of the day, the answer is sometimes as simple as that offered by Holmes himself in “The Adventure of the Retired Colourman.”

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The painter who crowds his canvas with the innumerable spots of colour that can be squeezed out of every tube of beautiful paint that the colourman sells, is no nearer his goal than he who fills his rooms with a heterogeneous miscellany of articles swept together from every clime and of every age.

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In "The Adventure of the Retired Colourman" Mr. Holmes sniffs paint, draws conclusions, asks a withered man of 61: "What did you do with the bodies?"

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