英语词汇crayon的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	crayon
词源	crayon [M17th] Crayon was adopted from French, from craie ‘chalk’, Latin creta, source also of the late 17th-century word cretaceous, ‘chalky’, now mainly used to describe the geological period when chalk was laid down.
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