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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

... kermesse has ceased to be typical of the country, and is supplanted by fairs such as may be seen in England or in almost any other country. 'Merry-go-rounds' driven by steam, elaborate circuses, menageries, waxwork exhibitions, movable theatres, and modern 'shows' of every kind travel about, and settle for a few days, perhaps even for a few weeks, in various towns. The countryfolk of the surrounding district are delighted, and the showmen reap a goodly harvest of francs and centimes; ...

— Bruges and West Flanders • George W. T. Omond

... street. He was everywhere at once. Everybody met him every day, and he knew everything that everybody ever did; though nobody ever knew what HE did. He was, they say, a hundred years old, and had never dined at his own charge once in those hundred years. He looked like a figure out of a waxwork, with glassy clear meaningless eyes: he always spoke with a grin; he knew what you had for dinner the day before he met you, and what everybody had had for dinner for a century back almost. He was the receptacle of all ...

— Men's Wives • William Makepeace Thackeray

... 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. ...

— Dope • Sax Rohmer

Words linked to "Waxwork" : Celastrus scandens, climbing bittersweet, American bittersweet, genus Celastrus, image, false bittersweet, effigy, staff vine, wax figure, bittersweet, Celastrus, simulacrum, shrubby bittersweet