Word.ws English Dictionary

portcrayon

portcrayon is the obsolete form of porte-crayon.

Meaning of porte-crayon

Noun

porte-crayon (plural porte-crayons)

  1. (historical) An instrument (typically a metallic tube with a clasp) used to hold a pencil, lead etc. for drawing.
    • Kauffman's figure holds a porte-crayon and a tablet, on which she has sketched the allegorical image of Prudence […].1992, Wendy Wassyng Roworth, Angelica Kauffman, Reaktion Books, published 1992, page 72

Forms of portcrayon

pluralportcrayons

Questions about portcrayon

What is portcrayon the obsolete form of?
Portcrayon is the obsolete form of porte-crayon.

Words near portcrayon in the dictionary

  1. Portchester
  2. portcluse
  3. portcluses
  4. portco
  5. portcos
  6. portcrayon
  7. portcrayons
  8. portculis
  9. portculises
  10. portculisses
  11. portculleis

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: portcrayon (page history and authors); porte-crayon (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “portcrayon.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/portcrayon. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.