Meanings
Crayola1
proper noun
- A surname.
Crayola2
proper noun
- trademarkA 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.”
2007, Barbara Kingsolver, “Gratitude: May” (chapter 7), in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, New York, N.Y.: Harper Perennial, published 2008, →ISBN, page 107
Origin
- Frenchcraie“chalk”
- EnglishCrayola
Coined by Alice (Stead) Binney, the wife of the founder of the company. From French craie (“chalk”) + oleaginous; cf. -ola.
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