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crayon
[ krey-on, -uhn ]
noun
- a pointed stick or pencil of colored clay, chalk, wax, etc., used for drawing or coloring.
- a drawing in crayons.
verb (used with object)
- to draw or color with a crayon or crayons.
verb (used without object)
- to make a drawing with crayons.
crayon
/ ˈkreɪən; -ɒn /
noun
- a small stick or pencil of charcoal, wax, clay, or chalk mixed with coloured pigment
- a drawing made with crayons
verb
- to draw or colour with crayons
Derived Forms
- ˈcrayonist, noun
Other Words From
- crayon·ist noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of crayon1
Word History and Origins
Origin of crayon1
Example Sentences
Crawford, the second commanding officer, a few minutes earlier had come to give us some coloring paper and crayons.
Half of Blade Wynne’s drawings are in pencil and the others in crayon, a natural medium for someone who teaches second-graders.
In fact their approach has as much in common with “style transfer” techniques — redrawing images in an impressionistic, crayon and arbitrary other fashions — than with deepfakes as they are commonly understood.
I felt it when as a child I picked out the crayons that I thought most closely resembled my skin tone and my father’s and felt great relief that they were, at least, both brown.
That experience of aroma-evoked memory became known as the Proust phenomenon, familiar to anyone who’s lost track of the present after burying their nose in a box of crayons.
Consider a song like “Crayon” by G-Dragon, a member of the boy band Big Bang.
A crude label, written in red crayon and held on with tape, read , “Friedrich Wilhelm Ier, der Soldaten König.”
He examined the other coffins, each with its crude red crayon label held on with tape.
He opens a letter from his daughter, scrawled in uneven crayon: “Dear Daddy, can I come see you soon?”
At six, I told my mother - proudly and with half-eaten crayon on my face - that "children were yucky and dogs were better."
She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.
This crayon "enlargement" presented John with very black skin and spotless white hair.
He used a machine called a physionotrace which enabled him to make profile drawing in white chalk and in crayon.
One certain stroke of the crayon is worth a hundred lines, each approaching the right one.
And with a crayon he made drawings on the wainscot of the room.
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