| 单词 | colour duster |
| 释义 | > as lemmascolour duster colour duster n. now rare a person whose job is to carry out colour dusting; also called ground layer. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > decoration of china > [noun] > painting > colour dusting > artist colour duster1898 1898 R. Nash Life & Death in Potteries (Women's Co-operative Guild) 6 There are the colour-dusters, who sit with a little heap of brilliant colour dust beside them, dusting it on to an oiled surface of ware. 1900 Daily News 22 Feb. 7/4 [A] colour duster. 1922 A. M. Anderson Women in Factory iv. 116 The latter visited practically all women reported for lead poisoning, and a striking example was the case of Mrs. B., colour duster and paintress, aged thirty-eight, married fifteen years, who had nine miscarriages and one living child, ill all the three years of its life. 1972 Classif. of Occupations (Dept. Employment) III. 386/1 Groundlayer,..Colour duster, Duster, Oil and dust bander. < as lemmas |
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