Colorist
(Col"or*ist) n. [Cf. F. coloriste.] One who colors; an artist who excels in the use of colors; one
to whom coloring is of prime importance.
Titian, Paul Veronese, Van Dyck, and the rest of the good colorists.
Dryden.
Colorless
(Col"or*less), a.
1. Without color; not distinguished by any hue; transparent; as, colorless water.
2. Free from any manifestation of partial or peculiar sentiment or feeling; not disclosing likes, dislikes,
prejudice, etc.; as, colorless music; a colorless style; definitions should be colorless.
Colorman
(Col"or*man) n.; pl. Colormen A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
Color sergeant
(Col"or ser"geant). See under Sergeant.
Colossal
(Co*los"sal) a. [Cf. F. colossal, L. colosseus. See Colossus.]
1. Of enormous size; gigantic; huge; as, a colossal statue. "A colossal stride." Motley.
2. (Sculpture & Painting) Of a size larger than heroic. See Heroic.
Colossean
(Col`os*se"an) a. Colossal. [R.]
Colosseum
(Col`os*se"um) n. [Neut., fr. L. colosseus gigantic. See Coliseum.] The amphitheater of
Vespasian in Rome. [Also written Coliseum.]
Colossus
(Co*los"sus) n.; pl. L. Colossi E. Colossuses [L., fr. Gr. .]
1. A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as
the Colossus of Nero in Rome, the Colossus of Apollo at Rhodes.
He doth bestride the narrow world
Like a colossus.
Shak.
