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Crayon vs Crayola - What's the difference?

crayon | crayola |

crayon

English

(wikipedia crayon)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A stick of colored chalk or wax used for drawing.
  • * Dryden
    • Let no day pass over you without giving some strokes of the pencil or the crayon .
  • (dated) A crayon drawing.
  • * 1885 , Littell's Living Age (volume 167, page 187)
    • But on the wall hung two fine crayons , representing Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette — pictures which she recognized as having hung in the corridor of the Tuileries — and in front of them were burning two candles on a species of rude altar.
  • (dated) A pencil of carbon used in producing electric light.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To draw with a crayon.
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    crayola

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (surname)
  • A brand of artist's supplies by the Crayola company, especially crayons.