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Crayola
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crayola
English
Etymology 1
Proper noun
en.
Etymology 2
vertical Crayola logo.png Logo of Crayola CrayonLogs.jpg Crayola crayons
Coined by Alice (Stead) Binney, the wife of the founder of the company. From en fr craie chalk + en oleaginous;Where did the brand name Crayola originate? Crayola https://www.crayola.com/faq/your-history/where-did-the-brand-name-crayola-originate/ 1 https://web.archive.org/web/20150909140131/http://www.crayola.com/faq/your-history/where-did-the-brand-name-crayola-originate/ 9 September 2015. cf. en -ola.
Pronunciation
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Crayola.wav US
Proper noun
en trademark A brand of art supplies from the Crayola company, especially crayons.
en 2007 w:Barbara Kingsolver Gratitude: May 7 w:Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life New York, N.Y. w:Harper Perennial 2008 9780060852559 107 https://archive.org/details/animalvegetablem00barb/page/107/mode/1up?q=%22Crayola%22 Rosemary and sage, blueberry and raspberry, fountain grass, blue sweetgrass, sunshine-colored roses, blue-and-white columbines, scarlet poppies, butterfly bush and “Sunset” echinacea—the color scheme of my garden is “Crayola.”
Descendants
ceb krayóla 1
bcl krayóla 1
es crayola 1
tl krayola 1
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