crayon
noun
- drawing material made in stick form
verb
- draw with crayon
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹeɪ̯.ɒn/ / [ˈkɹeɪ̯.ɒ̃] / /ˈkɹeɪ̯.ən/
noun
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.
- A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.
- A colored pencil, a colouring pencil
“Let no day pass over you […] without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon.”
- 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.”
- A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.
verb
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.
- To draw with a crayon.