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conte

[ kawn-te ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Italian.

, plural con·ti [kawn, -tee].

Conté

[ kohn-tey, kon-tee; French kawn-tey ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

, plural Con·tés [kohn-, teyz, kon, -teez, kaw, n, -, tey].

Trademark. a brand of crayon made of graphite and clay, usually in black, red, or brown.

conte

/ kɔ̃t /

Conté

/ ˈkɒnteɪ; kɔ̃te /

a hard crayon used by artists, etc, made of clay and graphite and often coloured a reddish-brown Also calledconté-crayon

Origin of conte¹

1850–55; named after N. J. Conté, 18th-century French chemist, who invented it

Origin of conte¹

C19: named after N.J. Conté, 18th-century French chemist

Some of the best pencils made by M. Conté, were formed of two parts of plumbago and three parts of clay; others of equal parts.

M. Conté recommends the hardest pencils of the architect to be made of lead melted with some antimony and a little quicksilver.

It is also made by Messrs. Conté of Paris in sticks artificially prepared.

Black Conté is a hard black chalk made in small sticks of different degrees.

Studies done in this medium can also be finished with Conté chalk.

April 24, 2024gallimaufry

[gal-uh-maw-free ]

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