| 释义 |
colourer, colorer|ˈkʌlərə(r)|
[f. colour v. + -er1.]
One who or that which colours; one who paints in colours, or colours maps, prints, etc.
1612W. Parkes Curtaine Dr. in Collier Bibl. Catal. II. 106 Tobacco..now made..the drunken colourer of Drabby salacy. 1686W. Aglionby Painting Illust. ii. 84 He understood little of Composition..but was an admirable Colourer. 1796Hull Advertiser 30 Jan. 1/1 Wholesale and retail Paper Hanging Manufacturers, and licenced Colourers. 1885Bookseller 5 Mar., W. S. Print-Colourer in General. Maps and other subjects, Coloured in the Best Style.
†2. A dissembler; a perverter of words, etc.
1681Glanvill Sadducismus ii. 39 Colourers, changers Perverters of the Face of things. |