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• a  made of or covered with wax
  waxen candles
• s  having the paleness of wax
  the poor face with the same awful waxen pallor"- Bram Stoker

• Her biographer, Lady Antonia Fraser, posed before a replica of the Queen's executioner in a duplicate of the costume that the waxen Mary wears in the museum.
• Perhaps he was Georgy Malenkov, the suety, waxen-faced Great Russian who donned the dictator's mantle.
• After all, a waxen representation of the dictator has been on display in the German city of Hamburg for 60 years, without causing any serious disruptions.

• waxy
• waxlike

Quotes

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• Daniel Horowitz in San Francisco Chronicle
  When prosecutor Harold Jewett asked how he knew she was dead, Horowitz said, "She looked sort of waxen. There was so much blood. Her hand was like in a claw shape, swollen."
• Virgil in Chicago Sun-Times
  Still, she generally improves on past translations -- Virgil describes bees as stout-hearted warriors in "their waxen kingdoms," a phrase lovely enough to send me skipping back to my Loeb Classical Library translation by HR Fairclough, where...