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wax doll
1. A doll with head and bust (often also the limbs) of wax.
1786J. Woodforde Diary 16 Mar. (1926) II. 231 It was a wax Doll, a female Figure, dressed with a Trumpet in her Mouth. 1816Jane Austen Let. 21 Apr. (1952) 455 It might do for a quilt for your little wax doll. 1828Miss Mitford Village, Country Barber III. 165 A certain huge wax-doll, called Sophy, who died the usual death of wax-dolls, by falling out of the nursery-window. 1834Dickens Sk. Boz, Boarding-ho. i, Mrs. Tibbs..looked like a wax doll on a sunny day.
attrib.1847Thackeray Van. Fair (1848) xii. 97 That silly insignificant simpering Miss Thompson, who has nothing but her wax-doll face to recommend her. 1852Mrs. Carlyle New Lett. (1903) II. 50 Her wax-doll face took the fancy of Boys at that period.
2. pl. = fumitory.
1855Anne Pratt Flower. Pl. I. 81 The flowers [of Fumaria officinalis]..are rose-coloured, and tipped with purple and children, in many parts of Kent, call them wax dolls. 1886Britten & Holland Plant-n. |