waxwork
- n twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds
- n an effigy (usually of a famous person) made of wax
- She is a beautiful, blonde, rather waxwork-like Frenchwoman who accompanies her balladry on the guitar.
- The latest acquisition of Madame Tussaud's famed waxwork exhibition in London is a life-size effigy of Premier Stanley Baldwin, reputed to be " amazingly realistic.
- How a dare over a beer led a retired policeman to rip the head off a waxwork of Der Fuhrer.