crayon
/ˈkɹeɪ̯.ɑn/ noun A2- A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.
- A crayon drawing, or a drawing with colored lines.
- A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.
Plural crayons
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In the former were many good paintings: but Elizabeth knew nothing of the art; and from such as had been already visible below, she had willingly turned to look at some drawings of Miss Darcy’s, in crayons, whose subjects were usually more interesting, and also more intelligible.
Phillips took a chalk crayon and wrote on the blackboard above her head.
The chairs were of ancient workmanship and materials; over the doors were painted sketches of shepherds and shepherdesses, after the style and manner of Boucher; and at each side pretty medallions in crayons, harmonizing well with the furnishings of this charming apartment, the only one throughout the great mansion in which any distinctive taste prevailed.
And those two crayon portraits, that have faded from the dampness; do they not seem to say, with their pale lips and staring eyes, ‘We have seen’?”
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