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Meaning of Crayon | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ˈkɹeɪ.ɒn

Definitions

  1. A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.
  2. A colored pencil, a colouring pencil
  3. A crayon drawing, or a drawing with colored lines.
  4. A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.

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Examples

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

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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