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crayon (n.)
1640s, from French
crayon
"pencil" (16c.), originally "chalk pencil," from
craie
"chalk," from Latin
creta
"chalk, pipe-clay," which is of unknown origin. Not now considered to mean "Cretan earth," as once was believed.
