wax museum
noun
a museum containing wax effigies of famous persons, especially historical figures, usually in scenes associated with their lives.
Origin of wax museum
1First recorded in 1950–55
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How to use wax museum in a sentence
Colonel Halter watched the old figures sitting like figures in a wax museum, waiting, waiting.
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