crayon
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Definition of crayon
5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.
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noun
- A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.
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(obsolete)A colored pencil, a colouring pencil
“Let no day pass over you […] without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon.”
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(dated)A crayon drawing, or a drawing with colored lines.
“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.”
- (dated)A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.
verb
- (ambitransitive)To draw with a crayon.
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Etymology
Etymology tree Latin crēta French craie Proto-Indo-European *-ōder. Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.? Latin -ō Frankishinflu. Old French -on Middle French -on French -on French crayonbor. English crayon Borrowed from French crayon (“pencil”), from craie (“chalk”) + -on (diminutive suffix), from Latin crēta (“chalk, clay”), perhaps from crētus.
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