Crayon

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.
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4. A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.
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Equivalents

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.”

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