单词 | crayon |
释义 | crayon (once / 4940 pages) nv A crayon is a colorful stick of wax made for drawing and coloring. It’s also what you do with it. If a kid asks you to crayon with her, bring some paper and your imagination. Young artists often start with crayons, since they’re easy to deal with. Harold and the Purple Crayon is a book about a little boy who draws his own adventures with one purple crayon. But crayons come in hundreds of colors. While the history of drawing with colored wax dates back to ancient Egypt, the crayon we know today has been around — along with the word itself — since the 17th century. It comes from the French crayon, "pencil." WORD FAMILYcrayon: crayoned, crayoning, crayons USAGE EXAMPLESDennis Crayon, whose “That Which Was Once Whole” is at the Art League Gallery, is of the latter group. Washington Post(Dec 23, 2016) Items collected for patients at Baptist East include coloring books, crayons, stuffed animals and bubbles. Washington Times(Dec 25, 2016) We prepare food in advance, put away our phones, pack up the crayons, turn off our screens and leave our cars parked in the garage. New York Times(Dec 23, 2016) 1n writing implement consisting of a colored stick of composition wax used for writing and drawing Syn|Hyper wax crayon writing implement an implement that is used to write 2v write, draw, or trace with a crayon Hyper draw represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface |
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