Sticks of colored wax that children use for drawing and coloring.
From French 'crayon' derived from Latin 'creta' meaning chalk, the word originally described chalk-like drawing tools before wax crayons were invented in the 1900s.
Crayola crayons have such specific names (like 'Razzmatazz' and 'Inchworm') that linguists study how these invented color names shape the way children learn to see and describe colors differently from their parents.
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