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wax·work

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–noun

1.	a figure, ornament, or other object made of wax, or esp. the life-size effigy of a person.

2.	the bittersweet, Celastrus scandens.

[Origin: 1690–1700; wax¹ + work

]

—Related forms

waxworker, noun

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n.

The art of modeling in wax.
A figure made of wax, especially a life-size wax effigy of a famous person.
waxworks (used with a sing. or pl. verb) An exhibition of wax figures in a museum.

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waxwork
noun
1.	twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds [syn: bittersweet]
2.	an effigy (usually of a famous person) made of wax

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ˈwaxwork noun

a wax model (usually of a well-known person)

Arabic:	تِمثال من الشَّمْع
Chinese (Simplified):	蜡像
Chinese (Traditional):	蠟像
Czech:	vosková figurína
Danish:	voksfigur
Dutch:	wassen beeld
Estonian:	vahakuju
Finnish:	vahakuva
French:	statue en cire
German:	die Wachsfigur
Greek:	κέρινο ομοίωμα
Hungarian:	viaszfigura
Icelandic:	vaxmynd
Indonesian:	patung lilin
Italian:	(modello, *statua di cera)

Japanese:	ろう人形
Korean:	밀랍 인형
Latvian:	vaska figūra
Lithuanian:	vaško figūra
Norwegian:	voksfigur, *-arbeid
Polish:	figura woskowa
Portuguese (Brazil):	trabalho em cera
Portuguese (Portugal):	figura de cera
Romanian:	statuetă, *figură de ceară
Russian:	восковая фигура
Slovak:	vosková figurína
Slovenian:	voščena figura
Spanish:	figura de cera
Swedish:	vaxfigur
Turkish:	balmumu heykel

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Waxwork

Wax"work`\, n. 1. Work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings.

2. (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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