wax museum
noun
a museum containing wax effigies of famous persons, especially historical figures, usually in scenes associated with their lives.
wax museums
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pluralof wax museum.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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New Orleans is fertile ground for little back-street museums, some no bigger than a dusty room or two: alligator museums, wax museums, voodoo museums, cocktail museums, jazz museums.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2019
The massive project, dubbed the Qingdao Oriental Movie Metropolis, would include 20 film studios, cinemas, a theme park, hotels and wax museums.
From Economist ● Sep. 26, 2013
Hitler was also prominently featured on a billboard for one of the nation’s wax museums.
From Time ● Sep. 1, 2013
Here is one guy the wax museums will have no trouble getting right.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2012
They didn’t smell bad at first, were wax museums.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
