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单词 wax doll
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wax dolln.

(in sense 1 usually)Brit. /ˌwaks ˈdɒl/, U.S. /ˌwæks ˈdɑl/ (in sense 2)Brit. /ˈwaks dɒl/, U.S. /ˈwæks ˌdɑl/
1. A doll with head and bust (often also the limbs) of wax.
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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.
attributive.1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xii. 97 That silly insignificant simpering Miss Thompson, who has nothing but her wax-doll face to recommend her.1852 J. W. Carlyle New Lett. (1903) II. 50 Her wax-doll face took the fancy of Boys at that period.
2. plural = fumitory n.
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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
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