| 单词 | waxwork-figure |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswaxwork-figure C1. attributive and in other combinations, as waxwork-figure, waxwork-show. Π 1827 S. Smith Wks. (1859) II. 131/1 There is a wax-work Pope, and a wax-work Court of Rome. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xxvii. 242 Mrs. Jarley's wax-work show. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xxix. 254 She slept..in the room where the wax-work figures were. 1889 R. Buchanan in Contemp. Rev. Dec. 912 The highway is strewn with the corpses of dead poets who never lived,..with loud inglorious Cowleys, with waxwork Popes. 1898 T. Watts-Dunton Aylwin viii. i The House of Commons has become a bear-garden, and t'other House a wax-work show. < as lemmas |
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