crayon

Definition

A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.

Etymology

Borrowed from French crayon (“pencil”), from craie (“chalk”) + -on (“(diminutive)”), from Latin creta (“chalk, clay”), from crētus.

Example Sentences

• "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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