waxen

wax·en (w

adj.

1. Made of or covered with wax.

2. Pale or smooth as wax: waxen skin.

3. Weak, pliable, or impressionable: waxen minds.

waxen¹

adj

1. made of, treated with, or covered with wax

2. resembling wax in colour or texture

waxen²

Archaic a past participle of wax²

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Adj.	1.	waxen - made of or covered with wax; "waxen candles"; "careful, the floor is waxy" waxy
	2.	waxen - having the paleness of wax; "the poor face with the same awful waxen pallor"- Bram Stoker; "the soldier turned his waxlike features toward him"; "a thin face with a waxy paleness" waxlike, waxy colorless, colourless - weak in color; not colorful

waxen

adjective pale, white, ghastly, wan, bloodless, colourless, pallid, anaemic, ashen, whitish His skin was waxen and pale and his eyes were sunken.

Translations

waxen [ˈwæksən] ADJ

1. (o.f.) (= made of wax) → de cera, céreo

2. (liter) (= pale) → ceroso

waxen [ˈwæks^ən] adj → cireux/euse
wax museum n → musée m de cire
wax paper n (US) (= waxed paper) → papier m paraffiné

waxen

adj

(old) → wächsern

(fig: = pale) → wachsbleich, wächsern

waxen [ˈwæks/ən] adj (of wax) → di cera (fig) (pale) → cereo/a

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bond-servant
Cereous
concave shape
concavity
cup
deadly
Imprison ment
Incurvation
incurvature
manipulation
pallid
sickly
WAN
wax
waxed
Waxen chatterer
waxing
waxlike
waxy

She prayed and told her beads, in another little room, before a waxen Virgin niched in a little box against the wall; she bedded herself like a slave.

A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context

The old man too came up and kissed the waxen little hands that lay quietly crossed one on the other on her breast, and to him, too, her face seemed to say: "Ah, what have you done to me, and why?

War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

Riley, a gentleman with a waxen complexion and fat hands, rather highly educated for an auctioneer and appraiser, but large-hearted enough to show a great deal of

The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context

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