Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to the art of modeling in wax; modeled in wax.
  • noun The art of modeling or of forming models in wax.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Relating to the art of modeling in wax.
  • adjective Modeled in wax.

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  • adjective Modelled in wax.
  • adjective Of, or relating to such an art or process.

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  • "Most famously, Swiss physician turned entrepreneur Philippe Curtius (1737–1794) began his career by making anatomical models, but soon moved on to the more lucrative practice of displaying waxworks of notable French persons from both ends of the social spectrum, aristocrats and nobles on the one hand, and thieves and criminals on the other. The story of his famous “niece” (or possibly his daughter) Madame Tussaud (1761–1850) is well rehearsed: her earliest models are said to have been death masks of mutilated heads taken directly from the guillotine"

    June 28, 2014