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waxworks

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wax·work  (wkswûrk)
n.
1. The art of modeling in wax.
2. A figure made of wax, especially a life-size wax effigy of a famous person.
3. waxworks (used with a sing. or pl. verb) An exhibition of wax figures in a museum.
waxworks
Noun
a museum or exhibition of wax figures
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waxworks [ˈwækswəːks] npl → museo sg de cera
waxworks [ˈwækswəːks] npl → personnages mpl de cire; musée m de cire
waxworks [ˈwækswəːks] wax npl (models) → Wachsfiguren pl
n (place) → Wachsfigurenkabinett nt
waxworks [ˈwækswəːks] npl → cere fpl; museo delle cere


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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.
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