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crayoncray‧on1 /ˈkreɪən, -ɒn $ -ɑːn, -ən/ ●○○ noun [countable] crayons.jpg AVa stick of coloured wax or chalk that children use to draw pictures
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crayon• Grated crayon added to paint produces interesting effects and can give different shades of colour.• It takes about 10 minutes, and visitors get free samples of crayons and markers.• A pastel is a dry stick or crayon, it is not paint.• Both side walls are covered with drawings-pencil, crayon, charcoal, child and adult.• Can you imagine the board games, the crayon drawings, the tears?• For Caspar there were crayons wrapped in a roll of drawing paper.• Exhibit A, above, is clearly a shoddy effort created with crayons bearing no resemblance to Victoria.• Rainbow lovers such as Todd Oldham and Isaac Mizrahi have always played with crayons, but never like this.
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crayoncrayon2 verb [intransitive, transitive] AVDRAWto draw something with a crayon
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Origin crayon (1600-1700) French craie “chalk”
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