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Origin of insect wax

First recorded in 1850–55

Place the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt on parchment or wax paper.
Make ‘The Chew’s’ Carla Hall’s Sticky Toffee Pudding|Carla Hall|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Alastair Sim had jowls like melting candle wax, a snarl like a cornered cat and eyes cold with contempt.
How Dickens and Scrooge Saved Christmas|Clive Irving|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Inside the wax floored examining room, I sat up on the powder blue table with my shirt off.
I Shot Bin Laden|Elliot Ackerman|November 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Bats are crucial to the ecosystem, performing extremely valuable jobs like pollination and insect control.
Bats’ Link to Ebola Finally Solved|Carrie Arnold|November 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Their nightly flights bring with them the powers to pollinate plants and control insect populations.
Bats’ Link to Ebola Finally Solved|Carrie Arnold|November 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Her eldest daughter married in America, and was well known as a modeller in wax in New York.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
At length only four or five flames remained, feebly wavering in their pools of melted wax.
The Boarded-Up House|Augusta Huiell Seaman
Two many-branched candelabra, holding wax lights, brilliantly illuminate the game.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
Tories will wax eloquent on "the pink miasma of revolutionary Radicalism."
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 107, November 3, 1894|Various
To the animal whose special finger enables him to catch the insect?
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford