Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stiff wax used to seal the mouths of bottles and jars.
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Examples
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He glanced with a defiant and desperate air at the porter, who without a word held out a grey folded paper sealed with bottle-wax.
Crime and Punishment 2002
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He glanced with a defiant and desperate air at the porter, who without a word held out a grey folded paper sealed with bottle-wax.
Chapter I. Part II 1917
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He glanced with a defiant and desperate air at the porter, who without a word held out a grey folded paper sealed with bottle-wax.
Prestuplenie i nakazanie. English Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1851
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