porte-crayonn.
/ˌpɔːtˈkreɪɒn/, /ˌpɔːtˈkreɪən/, U.S. /ˌpɔrtˌkreɪˈɑn/ Now historical.
An instrument used to hold a pencil, lead, etc., for drawing, usually a metal tube split at the end and tightened by a sliding ring.
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porte-crayon1720
1720 T. Page Art of Painting 4 Black Lead in the Lump..used in an Instrument..called a Porto-Crion.
1745 Boston Gaz. 18 June 4/1 Stephen Greenleaf, Mathematical Instrument-Maker..Makes and mends all Sorts of Mathematical Instruments,..and all Sorts of common Compasses, drawing Pens and Portagraions.
1769 J. Reynolds Disc. Royal Acad. (1876) ii. 324 That the port-crayon ought to be for ever in your hands.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 702 Chalks are..held in a steel or brass case, called a port-crayon.
1886 J. Ruskin Præterita II. ix. 304 He painted a charming water-colour of me..with a magnificent port-crayon in my hand.
1924 Times 18 June 11/5 ‘Etienne Jeaurat, the Painter’... In brown brocaded dressing-gown and white turban, coquettishly ribboned, with a porte-crayon in his plump hand.
1979 C. Hayes Compl. Guide Painting & Drawing Techniques xiii. 172 The use of metal holders, called porte crayons, which resembled the modern propelling pencil.
1990 Independent (Nexis) 1 Dec. 32 Artists and craftsmen would chop the lead into thin strips which could then be wrapped in string or vine, or inserted into clawed holders known as porte-crayons.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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