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colorist

[ kuhl-er-ist ]

noun

  1. a person who uses color skillfully.
  2. a painter who emphasizes color relationships in a work of art.
  3. a person who colors photographs.
  4. a hairdresser who is skilled in coloring coloring or tinting hair.
  5. a musical performer or composer who is skilled in bringing musical color.


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Other Words From

  • color·istic adjective
  • color·isti·cal·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of colorist1

1680–90; color + -ist; compare French coloriste

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Example Sentences

First, colorists use a handheld measurement tool to scan clients’ hair to assess its history and health.

From Digiday

This went well, until a new colorist offered to use a new “natural” coloring process that would remove a third of his gray hair.

Recognizing anti-Blackness in the deep past, particularly the Christian Middle Ages, allows us to better understand how colorist prejudices were racialized and transmitted from Ancient Greece and Rome to the modern Western world.

Drink in the Cézanne-like panoply of greens and blues, both jangling and harmonized, and you immediately grasp what a wonderful colorist Neel was.

His mother, Cristiane, a colorist at a hair salon, was just 15.

If a man is a timid colorist, a strong, even crude, under-painting will help to strengthen his color.

He is certainly a skilful artist, a bold, seductive colorist, but above all he aims at effect.

On the contrary, to a colorist the first question about everything is its color.

To the colorist the combinations here suggested are full of inspiration.

A bad colorist does not love beautiful color better than the best colorist does, nor half so much.

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