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noun

Waxwork n.

Work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings.

(Bot.) An American climbing shrub (Celastrus scandens). It bears a profusion of yellow berrylike pods, which open in the autumn, and display the scarlet coverings of the seeds.

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Etymology of 'Waxwork'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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