colorist

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

color +‎ -ist

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:

     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.

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Borrowed from French coloriste.

colorist m (plural coloriști)

1. colorist