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wax museum

noun

  1. a museum containing wax effigies of famous persons, especially historical figures, usually in scenes associated with their lives.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of wax museum1

First recorded in 1950–55
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Example Sentences

Colonel Halter watched the old figures sitting like figures in a wax museum, waiting, waiting.

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