crayon

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

▪ I. crayon [crayon crayons crayoned crayoning] BrE [ˈkreɪən] NAmE [ˈkreɪən] noun
a coloured pencil or stick of soft coloured ↑chalk or ↑wax, used for drawing

Word Origin:
mid 17th cent.: from French, from craie ‘chalk’, from Latin creta.

Example Bank:
•Crayoned pictures covered the walls.


Example Bank:
•She coloured the picture in with crayons.
•She used crayons to draw the picture.
•The notice was written in crayon.
 
▪ II. crayon verb intransitive, transitive ~ (sth)
Main entry: ↑crayon_derived