crayonist

Variant of crayon

noun

  1. a small stick of chalk, charcoal, or colored wax, used for drawing, coloring, or writing
  2. a drawing made with crayons

Origin: Fr, pencil < craie, chalk < L creta, chalk, white earth, prob. < (terra) creta, sifted (earth) < pp. of cernere, to sift: see crisis

transitive verb

to draw or color with crayons

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