Waxwork
['wækswɜːk] or ['wækswɝk]
Definition
(n.) Work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings.
(n.) 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.
Inputed by Hodge
Examples
- Once, I had been taken to see some ghastly waxwork at the Fair, representing I know not what impossible personage lying in state. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It is a better plan than that he once proposed, of getting Mrs. Wright to make him a waxwork wife to sit at the head of his table. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Now, waxwork and skeleton seemed to have dark eyes that moved and looked at me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- This was a full-blown, very plump damsel, fair as waxwork, with handsome and regular features, languishing blue eyes, and ringleted yellow hair. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- A many, many, beautiful corpses she laid out, as nice and neat as waxwork. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
Typist: Marcus