Plural of colourer; multiple people or substances that add color to things.
From colourer (colour + -er) + -s (plural marker). The plural form preserves the British spelling convention throughout its derivation.
In medieval manuscripts, colourers were among the most skilled scribal workers, painstakingly hand-applying pigments to illuminated letters—sometimes they're credited as artists, though often their names were never recorded.
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