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Examples of waxen
waxen
Bruni used to be interesting but is now just another waxen faced Stepford wife.
From the guardian.co.uk
The centerpiece, Richard Nixon's career, was laid out in a sort of waxen splendor.
From the time.com
Even the wooden John Kerry or waxen Mitt Romney possesses more charisma that Geithner.
From the forbes.com
It has those waxen ripples that people called the candle's winding sheet.
From the guardian.co.uk
Daedalus warned his son Icarus not to fly too high, or the sun would melt his waxen wings.
From the time.com
So the gray, waxen man lay in a web of tubes and restraints, ringed by IV pumps and a ventilator.
From the dallasnews.com
He is also known to have bore a waxen seal which depicted a sailing ship on one side and a lion on the other.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The hand-sewn union banners in the Kalgoorlie-Boulder Museum are preserved in a waxen gloom, lying in state as serene as dead warriors.
From the stuff.co.nz
The red of the waxen camellia, vividly transparent as it was, was scarce redder than the unroughed cheeks and lips of their bearer.
From the gutenberg.org
- Made of or covered with wax; "waxen candles"; "careful, the floor is waxy"
- Having the paleness of wax; "the poor face with the same awful waxen pallor"- Bram Stoker; "the soldier turned his waxlike features toward him"; "a thin face with a waxy paleness"
- Made of wax; covered with wax; Of or pertaining to wax; Having the pale smooth characteristics of wax, waxlike, waxy; Easily effaced, as if written in wax
