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UK
/wˈækswɜːk/
]
NOUN
- twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds
- an effigy (usually of a famous person) made of wax
How To Use waxwork In A Sentence
- Peeld gold of waxwork her jellybelly and her grains of incense anguille bronze. Finnegans Wake
- Madame Tussauds in London unveiled a waxwork of Portugal footballer Cristiano Ronaldo on Wednesday, to coincide with the start of upcoming World Cup. Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business » 2010 » June » 09
- That odd grin makes the singer look like a freaky waxwork model. The Sun
- A gazetteer published in 1819 described the museum as: neatly arranged and handsomely filled with several thousand articles, such as paintings, waxwork, natural and artificial curiosities.
- Britney Spears will give a deliberately dull performance when Madame Tussaud's museum unveils a new waxwork of the pop starlet as part of a new collection.
- Every one knows the climbing-bittersweet, or "waxwork" (_Celastrus scandens_), with its bright berries hanging in clusters in the autumn copses, each yellow berry having now burst open in thin sections and exposed the scarlet-coated seeds. My Studio Neighbors
- The waxwork has been a latest addition in the recently breaking taboos about Hitler in Germany after more than sixty years of the holocaust. Beheading Hitler
- Ms Ni, a representative of the hall, told the Youth Daily that the cost of repairing dozens of damaged waxworks was extremely high as each wax figure was worth 80,000 yuan.
- Sculptural crafts included shellwork, featherwork, leatherwork, waxwork, and mosaic work, as well as the weird and exotic arts of hairwork, "skeletonizing" and potichomanie. Book-Wyrm-Knits
- We couldn't believe how like a waxwork he looked: thin and weirdly out of date with his white coat on, talking on an old-fashioned telephone, with a corpselike pallor. Tarnish and Style: Why I Like Venice, part 1
