Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A method of casting bronze by making a model in wax and inclosing it in plaster, melting the wax out of the plaster, and then using the latter as a mold for the bronze.
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- noun
lost wax
Etymologies
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French, from cire, wax, and perdue, feminine past participle of perdre, to lose
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