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Crayon

//ˈkɹeɪ.ɑn// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.
  2. 2
    writing implement consisting of a colored stick of composition wax used for writing and drawing wordnet
  3. 3
    A colored pencil, a colouring pencil

    "Let no day pass over you […] without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon."

  4. 4
    A crayon drawing, or a drawing with colored lines. dated

    "But on the wall hung two fine crayons, representing Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette — pictures which she recognized as having hung in the corridor of the Tuileries — and in front of them were burning two candles on a species of rude altar."

  5. 5
    A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light. dated
Verb
  1. 1
    To draw with a crayon. ambitransitive
  2. 2
    write, draw, or trace with a crayon wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French crayon (“pencil”), from craie (“chalk”) + -on (“(diminutive)”), from Latin creta (“chalk, clay”), from crētus.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French crayon (“pencil”), from craie (“chalk”) + -on (“(diminutive)”), from Latin creta (“chalk, clay”), from crētus.

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