Tussaud

American  

[too-soh, tuh-, ty-soh] / tuˈsoʊ, tə-, tüˈsoʊ /

noun

1. Marie Grosholtz Madame Tussaud, 1760–1850, Swiss wax modeler in France and England: wax museum founder.

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Tussaud British  

/ tyso /

noun

1. Marie (mari). 1760–1850, Swiss modeller in wax, who founded a permanent exhibition in London of historical and contemporary figures

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Example Sentences

Later, in England, Little gains fame as the waxwork impresario Madame Tussaud.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

Capone kept tabs on his favorite casino, the Southern Club — now the Josephine Tussaud Wax Museum — from the window of his fourth-floor suite in the Arlington.

From Washington Post • Feb. 6, 2020

“I was going to have a Madame Tussaud replica of Elaine at the bar, where she always sat.”

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2013

Maybe they were wives of rulers, like Marie-Louise, or maybe they were artists, like Madame Tussaud.

From Reuters • Nov. 15, 2012

I presume you know Brunhilde behaves rather like Dido in the end: nearly everybody, more or less, is murdered off, and there is a sort of Madame Tussaud exhibition in the clouds at the curtain.

From The Smart Set Correspondence & Conversations by Fitch, Clyde