[
UK
/wˈæksən/
]
ADJECTIVE
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having the paleness of wax
the soldier turned his waxlike features toward him
the poor face with the same awful waxen pallor
a thin face with a waxy paleness -
made of or covered with wax
careful, the floor is waxy
waxen candles
How To Use waxen In A Sentence
- His face was deeply lined and waxen, his jaw set determinedly.
- Here and there that woods harlequin, the madrone, permitting itself to be caught in the act of changing its pea-green trunk to madder-red, breathed its fragrance into the air from great clusters of waxen bells. All Gold Canon
- And even now, Isolde could see with aching clarity the tiny, waxen face and flowerlike hands of her stillborn baby girl. Dark Moon of Avalon
- I remember seeing a body, a waxen broken body, hearing someone say something about slipping in a bathtub, and then seeing that the chest is not rising and falling, and feeling sad because someone has died.
- Mann scrapes the ring on his finger and the waxen rail K. & V. Mann (*), 1986
- She looked dead, waxen, looked as though she had never been alive in the first place. HOPE TO DIE
- His wife, who runs the register and takes special orders, is a fragile, waxen figure, with large strawberry-colored hair coiffed like cotton candy.
- Here and there that woods harlequin, the madrone, permitting itself to be caught in the act of changing its pea-green trunk to madder-red, breathed its fragrance into the air from great clusters of waxen bells. All Gold Cañon
- When that, too, failed, the waxen-faced summiteers emerged, and the recriminations began.
- He rolled on one shoulder and saw the waxen face of the shirtsleeved man, neck folded unnaturally to the side, tongue blue. The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
