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waxwork
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WordNet
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n. twining shrub of North America having three-valved yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds [syn: bittersweet , American bittersweet , climbing bittersweet , false bittersweet , staff vine , Celastrus scandens ] an effigy (usually of a famous person) ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Waxwork \Wax"work`\, n. Work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings. (Bot.) An American climbing shrub ( Celastrus scandens ). It bears a profusion of yellow berrylike pods, which open in the autumn, ...
Wikipedia
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Waxwork is a 1988 American horror comedy film written and directed by Anthony Hickox and starring Zach Galligan , Deborah Foreman , Michelle Johnson , David Warner , Dana Ashbrook and Patrick Macnee .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A figure made of wax, especially an effigy of a famous person.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He heard the soft hiss as the waxwork owner's sphincter muscle collapsed. ▪ He left something inside your waxworks. ▪ It's more than a little eerie, perhaps because waxworks always look like death masks. ▪ The shutters were firmly ...
Usage examples of waxwork.
There was a Roundabout, the Hoopla game, the Bumping Motor-Cars, and the Waxwork Show.
Now he stands erect and solemn, a waxwork at the graveside, his face the instantly identifiable emblem of Rackham Perfumeries set atop the dark column of his mourning-suit.
Cars and trucks were abandoned in the middle of the highway, with their drivers sitting like pallid waxworks behind the wheel.
Tom looked around curiously as they passed down several long corridors, with dusty brass railings and waxwork dioramas to either side of them.
And the legend of Prester John, blowing like a spring breeze into that stagnating waxworks, was as important as the crusades in stirring the minds of men and making them dream of distant horizons.
Gaudy neon signs and provocative marquees announced everything from jazz to bowling, live sex shows to tattooists, waxworks to gambling.
I have seen elderly ladies who looked like waxwork advertisements for Mother's Day become raging tigresses when politics has been mentioned, and babes scarcely weaned bash babes of uncongenial opinion with their dollies, as election day draws near.
When he was alone with the waxworks Chamcha was able to fix his thoughts once again on the face that had finally coalesced in his mind's eye, radiant, the light streaming out around him from a point just behind his head, Mister Perfecto, portrayer of gods, who always landed on his feet, was always forgiven his sins, loved, praised, adored .
The creature bared its teeth and let out a long, foul breath, and the waxworks dissolved into puddles and empty clothes, all of them, every one.