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wax museum
noun
- a museum containing wax effigies of famous persons, especially historical figures, usually in scenes associated with their lives.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of wax museum1
First recorded in 1950–55
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Example Sentences
Colonel Halter watched the old figures sitting like figures in a wax museum, waiting, waiting.
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