Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
port-crayon .
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Examples
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I was, I turned my attention to a silver trifle which I saw displayed in a show-case, and, recognising that it was a porte-crayon (price eighteen roubles), requested that it should forthwith be wrapped in paper for me.
Youth 2003
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Likewise, though I also found the porte-crayon distasteful, I was able, as I laid it on my table, to comfort myself with the thought that it was at least a SILVER article — so much capital, as it were — and likely to be very useful to a student.
Youth 2003
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Likewise, though I also found the porte-crayon distasteful, I was able, as I laid it on my table, to comfort myself with the thought that it was at least a SILVER article -- so much capital, as it were -- and likely to be very useful to
Youth Leo Tolstoy 1869
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a show-case, and, recognising that it was a porte-crayon (price eighteen roubles), requested that it should forthwith be wrapped in paper for me.
Youth Leo Tolstoy 1869
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