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Waxwork

noun

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.

An effigy (usually of a famous person) made of wax. Synonym: wax figure.

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Etymology of 'Waxwork'

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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

Words linked to "Waxwork" : genus Celastrus, Celastrus scandens, vine, effigy, Celastrus, simulacrum, image