| 单词 | colour-grinder |
| 释义 | > as lemmascolour-grinder colour-grinder n. now chiefly historical ΚΠ a1703 R. Hooke Present State Nat. Philos. in Posthumous Wks. (1705) 24 Colour Makers, Colour grinders, Glass-Painters. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 455 His colour-grinder has ground the quantity of colour which used to serve him per day in three hours. 1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock 239 The scene-painter..bids his colour-grinder clean his boots. 1956 D. V. Thompson Materials & Techniques Medieval Painting iii. 87 The medieval colour-grinder had an optimum in mind, and that was not always a maximum. 2000 MLN 115 608 The nomenclature of colors, so present at the time in the painters' vocabulary, was borrowed from the dyers, color grinders and chemists. < as lemmas |
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