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plural crayons
A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing. examples
A colored pencil, a colouring pencil quotations examples
Let no day pass over you […] without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon.
1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […]
(dated) A crayon drawing, or a drawing with colored lines. quotations examples
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.
1885, Littell's Living Age, volume 167, page 187
(dated) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light. examples
third-person singular simple present crayons, present participle crayoning or crayonning, simple past and past participle crayoned or crayonned
(transitive, intransitive) To draw with a crayon. examples