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colour man

colour man is the alternative form of colourman.

Meaning of colourman

Noun

colourman (plural colourmen)

  1. A man who sells (and, formerly, prepares) an artist's paints.
    • The Least, my Colourman will run away with, is fifty pounds per annum; my house with taxes stand me at least in Seventy […].1791, Henry Fuseli, edited by David H. Weinglass, Collected English Letters of Henry Fuseli, Kraus International, published 1982, page 73
  2. (UK) A commentator employed to provide background information, analysis, etc., on a given news or sports event.

Forms of colour man

pluralcolour men

Questions about colour man

What is colour man the alternative form of?
Colour man is the alternative form of colourman.

Words near colour man in the dictionary

  1. colour killers
  2. colour light
  3. colour light signal
  4. colour light signals
  5. colour lights
  6. colour man
  7. colour men
  8. colour of someone's money
  9. colour outside the lines
  10. colour pencil
  11. colour pencils

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