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Definition of Colormen
1. colorman [n] - See also: colorman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Colormen
Literary usage of Colormen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Philadelphia and Her Merchants: As Constituted Fifty @ Seventy Years Ago by Abraham Ritter (1860)
"... oil and colormen, announce themselves at .No. 65 in 1795; and Mordecai Wetherill,
one of the firm, branched off in the same business at the corner, ..."
2. The Photographic Journal of America: The Oldest Photography Magazine in America (1916)
"Those sold by the artists' colormen are better, and I have rather a fancy ...
All decent colormen have a pot of water ready for this test and quite expect ..."
3. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1911)
"... Spades & Shovels wanting handles he collected and delivered to their respective
Quartermasters, except such as are employed by the Camp colormen, ..."
4. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition by Andrew Ure (1844)
"BIAS* COLOR, as employed by the colormen to imitate brass, is of two lints, the
red or bronze, and the yellow like gilt brass. Copper filings, mixed with ..."
5. The American Annual of Photography (1909)
"A paper known to artists' colormen as "Japan AA" is an excellent paper to use,
and so is "Japanese parchment." For small work, requiring a smooth surface, ..."
6. How to work with the microscope by Lionel S[mith] Beale (1865)
"Vermilion of sufficiently good quality can be purchased of all artists' colormen
for six or eight shillings a pound. If upon microscopical examination a ..."
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