waxwork

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds
noun an effigy (usually of a famous person) made of wax

From wax + work.

Waxworks only fit for the Chamber of 'Orrors, ain't 'em?" — The Dop Doctor, Richard Dehan
He is as good at waxworks as your friend Straubenzee is at air-guns." — The case-book of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
A many, many, beautiful corpses she laid out, as nice and neat as waxwork. — Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens

bittersweet, American bittersweet, climbing bittersweet, false bittersweet, staff vine, shrubby bittersweet, Celastrus scandens

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