[too-soh, tuh-; Fr. ty-soh] 
Marie Gros⋅holtz [grohs-hohlts] , (“Madame Tussaud” ), 1760–1850, Swiss wax modeler in France and England: wax museum founder. |
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| French modeler (resident in England after 1802) who made wax death masks of prominent victims of the French Revolution and toured Britain with her wax models; in 1835 she opened a permanent waxworks exhibition in London (1761-1850) |