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crayon |
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crayon Noun a small stick or pencil of coloured wax or clay Verb to draw or colour with a crayon [Latin creta chalk]
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| At the back of the estrade, and attached to a moveable partition dividing this schoolroom from another beyond, was a large tableau of wood painted black and varnished; a thick crayon of white chalk lay on my desk for the convenience of elucidating any grammatical or verbal obscurity which might occur in my lessons by writing it upon the tableau; a wet sponge appeared beside the chalk, to enable me to efface the marks when they had served the purpose intended. Miniatures, halflengths, wholelengths, pencil, crayon, and watercolours had been all tried in turn. Softened into crayon sketches, they did better, for the likenesses were good, and Amy's hair, Jo's nose, Meg's mouth, and Laurie's eyes were pronounced `wonderfully fine'. |
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