单词 | wax doll |
释义 | wax dolln. 1. A doll with head and bust (often also the limbs) of wax. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > doll > [noun] > other dolls aglet babya1616 Flanders baby1782 wax doll1786 Flanders doll1801 paper doll1843 golliwog1895 Jumeau1897 voodoo doll1906 kewpie1909 Barbie1959 Barbie doll1961 Gonk1964 Ookpik1964 Action Man1966 kachina doll1968 1786 J. Woodforde Diary 16 Mar. (1926) II. 231 It was a wax Doll, a female Figure, dressed with a Trumpet in her Mouth. 1816 J. Austen Let. 21 Apr. (1995) 314 It might do for a quilt for your little wax doll. 1828 M. R. Mitford Our Village III. 165 A certain huge wax-doll, called Sophy, who died the usual death of wax-dolls, by falling out of the nursery-window. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 154 Mrs. Tibbs..looked like a wax doll on a sunny day. 2. plural = fumitory n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Papaveraceae (fumitory and allies) > [noun] fumitoryc1386 holewort1578 hollow-root1578 corydalis1819 poppywort1846 wax doll1854 hollowwort1863 turkey-pea1884 1854 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. I. 81 The flowers [of Fumaria officinalis]..are rose-coloured, and tipped with purple and children, in many parts of Kent, call them wax dolls. 1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1786 |
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