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单词 crayon
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crayonn.

Brit. /ˈkreɪɒn/, /ˈkreɪən/, U.S. /ˈkreɪˌɑn/, /ˈkreɪən/, /kræn/
Forms: Also 1600s crion, cryon, 1700s craon, craion.
Etymology: < French crayon, derivative of craie < Latin crēta chalk.
1.
a. A pointed stick or pencil of coloured chalk or other material, for drawing.
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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
c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 160 The Prospect was so tempting, that I could not forbeare to designe it with my Crayon.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 145/2 Crions [are] either White or Red Chalk cut into long pieces, and made sharp at the end to draw withall.
1719 J. Richardson Art Crit. 174 If..what was done in Oyl is imitated with..Crayons.
1760 Philos. Trans. 1759 (Royal Soc.) 51 185 He wrote his name..with a craion.
1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 142 Lithographic Crayons..may be used as pencils upon the stone.
1860 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters V. Pref. p. vi (note) Chalk débris, black and white, broken off the crayons with which Turner had drawn.
b. in crayon also in crayons: usually said of a design drawn with a crayon or crayons; also an artist in crayons, etc. (Cf. in colours, in oils.)
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > drawing > [adverb] > drawn in specific manner or medium
lineally1607
in crayon1663
in outline1815
by free-hand1860
in pastel1866
free-hand1880
1663 S. Pepys Diary 15 May (1971) IV. 139 Sir Thomas showed me his picture..in Croyon in little, done exceeding well.
1681 London Gaz. No. 1636/8 Another Picture in Red Cryon upon white Paper.
1759 S. Johnson Idler 7 July 209 A wonderful performance in crayons.
1859 L. Oliphant China & Japan II. viii. 181 Sketches of groups of horses in crayon.
2.
a. transferred. A drawing in crayons.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > drawing > [noun] > a drawing > in specific medium
coal work1651
crayon1662
pastel1791
pencilling1803
pen sketch1847
pen-picture1853
sanguine1854
pen and ink1860
black lead study1862
sepia1863
stylograph1866
charcoal1884
fusain1884
line drawing1891
celluloid1920
1662 J. Evelyn Sculptura sig. a5v Collecting the Crayons, Prints, Designes.
1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 May Supp. The gallery of large photographs and crayons.
b. figurative. A work not carried out in detail, a ‘sketch’.
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1787 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) II. 247 It is a poor crayon, which yourself..must fill up.
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3. A carbon point in an electric arc lamp.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations, as crayon-box, crayon-boardquot.), crayon-draft, crayon-holder, crayon-sketch.
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1706 B. Buckeridge Ess. Eng. School in J. Savage tr. R. de Piles Art of Painting 446 His Crayon- Drafts are also admirable.
1839–47 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. III. 347/1 Instruments resembling crayon-holders.
c1865 J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 191/2 Insert in each crayon-holder a piece of..charcoal.
1880 Webster's Dict. Suppl. Crayon-board, thick drawing-paper, or cardboard for drawing.
1883 ‘G. Lloyd’ Ebb & Flow II. xxvi. 98 Frank's original crayon sketch.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

crayonv.

Brit. /ˈkreɪɒn/, /ˈkreɪən/, U.S. /ˈkreɪˌɑn/, /ˈkreɪən/, /kræn/
Etymology: < French crayonner (Cotgrave 1611), < crayon : see crayon n.
1. transitive. To draw (something) with a crayon or crayons; to cover with drawing in crayons.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > drawing > draw [verb (transitive)] > in specific medium
crayona1684
chalk1709
pencil1774
crayonize1840
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1662 (1955) III. 309 When Mr. Cooper (the rare limner) was crayoning of his face & head, to make the stamps by, for the new mill'd mony.
1809 M. Edgeworth Dun in Tales Fashionable Life II. 301 The floor crayoned with roses and myrtles, which the dancers' feet effaced.
1851 Willis in W. Irving's Life & Lett. IV. 69 The flesh is most skilfully crayoned, the pose excellent.
2. figurative. To sketch, ‘chalk out’.
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society > communication > representation > [verb (transitive)] > in outline
to chalk out1571
to shape forth1579
crayon1734
1734 Visct. Bolingbroke Let. 12 Apr. in J. Swift Lett. (1766) III. 180 The others [sc. books] will soon follow; for many of them are writ, or crayoned out.
1797 Ann. Reg. 496 The plan which he had crayoned out.
1825 New Monthly Mag. 13 500 This relic..has found a new kind of immortality, so charmingly crayoned in the page of a trans-atlantic writer.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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