wax flower
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of wax flower
First recorded in 1835–45
Example Sentences
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Shown in photo gallery above: Small field-grown arrangement of white panda and pastel anemones, Queen Anne's lace, statice, wax flower, Australian rosemary, wild cucumber and garden mignonette, $75, including the Weck glass jar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2015
Two-ring arrangement of white panda and pastel anemones, sweet peas, Queen Anne's lace, statice, wax flower, Australian rosemary, wild cucumber and garden mignonette, $100, including a custom-made Silver Lake Farms two-ring holder and jars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2015
Shown in photo gallery above: The box is about 2 feet by 3 inches and contains peach branches, ranunculus, anemones, larkspur, leptospermum, wax flower, ivy and pittosporum, $400 plus tax and delivery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2015
That maiden lady in her wonderful preservation reminded Renouard somehow of a wax flower under glass.
From Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad
There was a table and some chairs but not much other furniture and no ornaments save an old-fashioned wax flower piece under a glass shell on a shelf.
From The Mission of Janice Day by Corinne Turner
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