Contén.¹

/ˈkɒnteɪ/

Forms: Also Conte, and with lower-case initial.

Etymology: < the name of the French inventor Nicolas Jacques Conté (1755–1805).

Used (esp. attributively) to designate a kind of pencil, crayon, or chalk, or the process of making such pencils, which Conté developed.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > chalk or crayon

chalk1481

pastel1612

crayonc1660

Conté1852

black chalk1854

sanguine1854

sumi1889

1852 Reeves' Amateurs' & Artists' Companion 222 Chalks. Crayon Pencils..Swiss Crayons. Conte Crayons. Port Crayons.

1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 490/1 The pencil leads prepared by the Conté process consist of a most intimate mixture of graphite and clay.

1927 W. G. Raffe Graphic Design ii. 98 The 6B pencil may give an undesirable shine at the critical place where a deep shadow is desired. Conté chalk has a much harder and calculated result.

1941 Burlington Mag. Nov. 140/1 Sketches and drawings on Ingres paper with a Conté pencil.

1943 W. Lewis Let. 31 Mar. (1963) 352 I bought the last box of white conté in the ‘Art Metropole’ here the other day.

1959 Times 24 Nov. 3/7 His mature drawings, executed with a greasy conté crayon on rough-surfaced paper, are unique in their reliance on granular tone.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

单词	conté
释义	Contén.¹ /ˈkɒnteɪ/ Forms: Also Conte, and with lower-case initial. Etymology: < the name of the French inventor Nicolas Jacques Conté (1755–1805). Used (esp. attributively) to designate a kind of pencil, crayon, or chalk, or the process of making such pencils, which Conté developed. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > chalk or crayon chalk1481 pastel1612 crayonc1660 Conté1852 black chalk1854 sanguine1854 sumi1889 1852 Reeves' Amateurs' & Artists' Companion 222 Chalks. Crayon Pencils..Swiss Crayons. Conte Crayons. Port Crayons. 1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 490/1 The pencil leads prepared by the Conté process consist of a most intimate mixture of graphite and clay. 1927 W. G. Raffe Graphic Design ii. 98 The 6B pencil may give an undesirable shine at the critical place where a deep shadow is desired. Conté chalk has a much harder and calculated result. 1941 Burlington Mag. Nov. 140/1 Sketches and drawings on Ingres paper with a Conté pencil. 1943 W. Lewis Let. 31 Mar. (1963) 352 I bought the last box of white conté in the ‘Art Metropole’ here the other day. 1959 Times 24 Nov. 3/7 His mature drawings, executed with a greasy conté crayon on rough-surfaced paper, are unique in their reliance on granular tone. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.¹1852
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