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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
waxwork
noun
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▪ 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 closed at the ticket booth, the waxwork policemen staring with sightless eyes at passers-by.
▪ Two or three feet away, standing by the entrance to the waxworks, were the figures of Laurel and Hardy.
▪ Vera could have spent all day nagging a waxwork of Jack and never realised...
▪ You knew my husband very well; he wrote a book about waxworks and you helped him with his research.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Waxwork

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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waxwork

n. A figure made of wax, especially an effigy of a famous person.

WordNet
waxwork

  1. 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]

  2. an effigy (usually of a famous person) made of wax [syn: wax figure]

Wikipedia
Waxwork

Waxwork or waxworks may refer to:

  • Wax museum, a museum for a collection of wax figures
  • Wax sculpture
  • Celastrus scandens, a plant in the Celastraceae family
  • Waxwork (film), a 1988 comedy/horror film
    • ''Waxwork II: Lost in Time, a sequel
  • Waxworks (film), a 1924 German silent film
  • Waxworks (1983 video game), a 1983 computer game for the Commodore 64 by Molimerx
  • Waxworks (1992 video game), a 1992 computer game for the Amiga and PC by HorrorSoft
  • Waxworks: Some Singles 1977–1982, a compilation by the band XTC
Waxwork (film)

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.

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.