The amateur tenor, whose vocal villainies / All desire to shirk, / Shall during off-hours, / Exhibit his powers / To Madame Tussaud's waxwork.
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Waxwork
Synonyms for "waxwork" (36 found)
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Related words (18)
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10 translations across 8 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- восъчна фигура noun (a wax figure, an effigy of a famous person)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 蠟像 /蜡像 noun (a wax figure, an effigy of a famous person)
Finnish
2 entries- vahakuva noun (a wax figure, an effigy of a famous person)
- vahapatsas noun (a wax figure, an effigy of a famous person)
French
1 entries- personnage en cire noun (a wax figure, an effigy of a famous person)
German
1 entries- Wachsfigur noun (a wax figure, an effigy of a famous person)
Japanese
1 entries- 蝋人形 noun (a wax figure, an effigy of a famous person)
Russian
2 entries- воскова́я фигу́ра noun (a wax figure, an effigy of a famous person)
- муля́ж noun (a wax figure, an effigy of a famous person)
Thai
1 entries- หุ่นขี้ผึ้ง noun (a wax figure, an effigy of a famous person)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
Waxwork is a fine art, but it differs from all other fine arts in that its main purpose is one that is expressly rejected by all those other arts.
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