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colour pencil

colour pencil is the alternative form of colored pencil.

Meaning of colored pencil

Noun

colored pencil (plural colored pencils)

  1. (US) A pencil with a wax-like colored core.

Forms of colour pencil

pluralcolour pencils

Questions about colour pencil

What is colour pencil the alternative form of?
Colour pencil is the alternative form of colored pencil.

Words near colour pencil in the dictionary

  1. colour lights
  2. colour man
  3. colour men
  4. colour of someone's money
  5. colour outside the lines
  6. colour pencil
  7. colour pencils
  8. colour proud
  9. colour retention agent
  10. colour retention agents
  11. colour revolution

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colour pencil (page history and authors); colored pencil (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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