[f. COLOUR v. + -ER1.] One who or that which colors; one who paints in colors, or colors maps, prints, etc.
1612. W. Parkes, Curtaine-Dr., in Collier, Bibl. Catal., II. 106. Tobacco … now made … the drunken colourer of Drabby salacy.
1686. Aglionby, Painting Illustr., ii. 84. He understood little of Composition … but was an admirable Colourer.
1796. Hull Advertiser, 30 Jan., 1/1. Wholesale and retail Paper Hanging Manufacturers, and licenced Colourers.
1885. Bookseller, 5 March. W. S. Print-Colourer in General. Maps and other subjects, Coloured in the Best Style.
† 2. A dissembler; a perverter of words, etc.
1681. Glanvill, Sadducismus, II. 39. Colourers, changers Perverters of the Face of things.
