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Crayola

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Crayola¹

proper noun

  1. A surname.

Crayola²

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Coined by Alice (Stead) Binney, the wife of the founder of the company. From French craie (“chalk”) + oleaginous; cf. -ola.

proper noun

  1. A brand of art supplies from the Crayola company, especially crayons. 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.”

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@misc{crayola_2026,
  title = {Crayola},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/crayola},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}