conte
noun
conte
1 American
[kawn-te]
/ ˈkɔn tɛ /
noun
Italian.
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conti
plural
Conté
2
American
[kohn-tey, kon-tee, kawn -tey]
/ koʊnˈteɪ, ˈkɒn ti, kɔ̃ˈteɪ /
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Contés
plural
Conté
1
British
/ kɔ̃te, ˈkɒnteɪ /
noun
conte
2
British
/ kɔ̃t /
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Conté
1850–55; named after N. J. Conté, 18th-century French chemist, who invented it
Example Sentences
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Heavily worked in conte crayon and ink, like an exceedingly muscular Seurat, it shows a boy breaking bread with two shifty-looking men.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2010
J. P. Donleavy's conte philosophique demonstrates that the things a man does not believe in can be as crippling as false faith.
From Time Magazine Archive
My title is hereditary," explained the new conte who is a U. S. citizen naturalized in 1914, "and my wife is now of course a countess.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their nails shone, their skin glowed, and the hair beneath their elaborately crocheted skullcaps looked drawn on with conte crayon.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
This was a direct development of the earlier conte, and consisted usually of the treatment, in a humorous, satirical, and not always over-decent fashion, of contemporary foibles, beliefs, philosophies and occupations.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
It features 26 paintings, oil sketches and drawings, these last done in Conté crayon, a medium made from powdered graphite and carbon black that allowed deeper blacks and more expressive tonal contrasts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026
In his drawing of a man’s face, David Ibata employs pastel and Conté crayon to convey rich Black skin tones.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2022
Camara is best known for having been a key member of the junta that seized control of Guinea from 2008-2010 after the death of then-President Lansana Conté.
From Reuters ● Oct. 22, 2021
Ahead of the trial, his lawyer Marc Bonnant insisted that he had "never paid a cent" to Mamadie Touré, the widow of former President Conté, whom the bribes allegedly went to.
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2021
Studies done in this medium can also be finished with Conté chalk.
From The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed
From its roots the Seminoles make the conti, a species of jelly—a sweet and nourishing food.
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Mayne Reid
As in France, however, there are some Italian conti whose titles are respectable, and even illustrious, from their historic associations.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various
Bartram mentions the use of a sieve by the Georgia Indians in straining a "cooling sort of jelly" called conti, made by pounding certain roots in a mortar and adding water.
From Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States Thirteenth Annual Report of the Beaurau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1891-1892, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896 pages 3-46 by William Henry Holmes
Casanova remarked that in some Italian cities all the nobles were baroni, in others all were conti.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various
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