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waxen

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wax·en  (wksn)
adj.
1. Made of or covered with wax.
2. Pale or smooth as wax: waxen skin.
3. Weak, pliable, or impressionable: waxen minds.
waxen
Adjective
1. resembling wax in colour or texture: his face is waxen and pale
2. made of, treated with, or covered with wax: a waxen image
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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
Translations

waxen [ˈwæksn] adj (fig) (= pale); blanco como la cera
waxen [wæksn] adj → cireux/euse
waxen [wæksn] wax adj [face] → wachsbleich


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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
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