wax figure

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wax figure - an effigy (usually of a famous person) made of wax

waxwork

effigy, simulacrum, image - a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture); "the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln"; "the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone"

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In Grandfather's younger days there used to be a wax figure of him in one of the Boston museums, representing a solemn, dark-visaged person, in a minister's black gown, and with a black-letter volume before him.

Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context

They sat rather like a very superior lot of waxworks, with the fixed but indetermined facial expression and with that odd air wax figures have of being aware of their existence being but a sham.

The Arrow of Gold by Conrad, Joseph View in context

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