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n. One who colours; an artist with a talent for colouring

n. A hairdresser who is a specialist in colouring and tinting hair.

"Although he disliked being described as a colourist ( "Everyone uses colour, don't they?" he once remarked), his pictures were almost always built up of thin, deeply saturated Expressionistic hues against which, he said, black skin looked better than white."

colorist   

pastellist    focaccia    pen-portrait    furnisher    orchestrator