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Tussaud

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Tussaud (French) [tyso]
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(Biographies / Tussaud, Marie (1760-1850) F, Swiss, ARTS AND CRAFTS: modeller in wax) Marie (mari). 1760-1850, Swiss modeller in wax, who founded a permanent exhibition in London of historical and contemporary figures
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Noun1.Tussaud - 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)
Madame Tussaud, Marie Grosholtz, Marie Tussaud


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The guard, who had never left his own brake, went home and dreamed that his effigy had been added to the collection of Madame Tussaud.
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