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colorist

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English

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Alternative forms

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  • colourist (UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, India)

Etymology

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From color +‎ -ist.

Noun

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colorist (plural colorists)

  1. One who colors; an artist with a talent for coloring.
    • 2023 May 4, Frank Bruni, “Republicans Are Running Wild in My State”, in The New York Times[1]:
      Political colorists can be promiscuous in calling states purple, but my state is true to that hue. I speak of North Carolina, and I have receipts: While our junior senator, Ted Budd, is a Republican who won election to a first term in 2022 by about three percentage points, our governor, Roy Cooper, is a Democrat who won election to a second term in 2020 by more than four.
  2. A hairdresser who is a specialist in coloring and tinting hair.
  3. (loosely) One who believes in or subscribes to colorism.

References

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  • OED2

Anagrams

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French coloriste.

Noun

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colorist m (plural coloriști)

  1. colorist

Declension

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative colorist coloristul coloriști coloriștii
genitive-dative colorist coloristului coloriști coloriștilor
vocative coloristule coloriștilor