Other forms: crayons
A crayon is the coloured wax stick small children draw with. Blunt within a day, and eventually snapped in half.
Wax crayons are the standard kind, and there are also oil pastels and conté crayons used by artists. They are the first drawing tool most people ever hold. The word came from French, from a root meaning chalk. Crayons melt in a hot car and never come out of a carpet, which are two facts most parents learn in the same week. As a verb it means to draw with them.
1nouncrayonA stick of coloured wax used for drawing.
“She drew the whole family in crayon.”
French
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English, today
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Borrowed from French crayon. French crayon (“pencil”), from craie + -on, from Latin crēta (“chalk, clay”), perhaps from crētus.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA