1. One who deals in colors, a color-seller.
1691. T. H[ale], Acc. New Invent., p. lvii. A Colour-man in the Strand.
1755. Gentl. Mag., XXV. 233. Justice Quarril, an oil and colour-man in Whitechapel.
1856. Dickens, Rogue’s Life, ii. I gave my orders to the colourman and settled … with … the artist that day.
b. A COLOURER.
1882. Athenæum, 8 July, 51/2. A Map of the Mediterranean … mainly remarkable for the fact that the colour man has quite forgotten the alteration of the northern frontiers of Greece.
c. Camp colour-man: see CAMP sb.2 VII. b.
1859. F. A. Griffiths, Artil. Man. (1862), 34. A camp colour-man per company.
