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waxworks
[ waks-wurks ]
noun
, (usually used with a singular verb)
, plural wax·works.
- an exhibition of or a museum for displaying wax figures, ornaments, etc.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of waxworks1
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Example Sentences
These waxworks used to be publicly exhibited, after which the cap was passed around for contributions.
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Can't cry creaky waxworks any more than you can stinking fish.
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Yer never see rich waxworks as 'is butler and 'is four conscientious khaki footmen.
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In another day most of them would have been candidates for a waxworks or the formaldehyde of a specimen bottle.
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The effigy is of painted wood and is amazingly lifelike, though smacking decidedly of the figures in a waxworks exhibition.
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