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grease pencil

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noun

  1. a pencil of pigment and compressed grease encased in a spiral paper strip that can be partially unwound to expose a new point and used especially for writing on glossy surfaces.


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Sheriff’s officials maintained a map of evacuation areas covered with clear plexiglass and a grease pencil to mark it.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2025

In a 1975 interview with the Central New Jersey News, Tucker-Foreman derided the grease pencil idea as “typical of the ‘public be damned’ attitude the industry takes.

From Slate • May 30, 2024

From there he made the initial drawings for what became his most famous building, the Wave House, using a grease pencil to sketch its curving, wavelike roof directly onto his longboard.

From Washington Post • Jun. 14, 2022

He tied a red grease pencil to a piece of string and taped it next to the map.

From Salon • May 4, 2019

All around us were portraits of famous old peculiars, not framed but drawn directly onto the walls in oil and charcoal and grease pencil.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

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