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Waxwork

noun
1.
Twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds.  Synonyms: American bittersweet, bittersweet, Celastrus scandens, climbing bittersweet, false bittersweet, shrubby bittersweet, staff vine.
2.
An effigy (usually of a famous person) made of wax.  Synonym: wax figure.






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"Waxwork" Quotes from Famous Books



... Buenos Ayres, which was the parent, if I may use the term, of the Kazmah business later established in Bond Street. From a music-hall illusionist, who came to grief during a South American tour, they acquired the oriental waxwork figure which subsequently mystified so many thousands of dupes. It was the work of a famous French artist in wax, and had originally been made to represent the Pharaoh, Rameses II., for a Paris exhibition. Attired in Eastern robes, and worked by a simple device which raised ...
— Dope • Sax Rohmer

... of the lamps in the 'House of God,' the Hospital close to it, burning low and being quenched; and of the keeper of the Morgue going about with a fading lantern, busy in the arrangement of his terrible waxwork for ...
— Reprinted Pieces • Charles Dickens



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