waxen

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Many are pen-and-ink drawings on vellum, exquisitely finished, of which the "Waxen Image" is one of the earliest and best examples; it is dated 1856.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various

Waxen Almeria, who was to have gone out as she entered, received a shock of it, and stood for a moment transfixed.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 by Various

Waxen white, pendulous, liliaceous flowers in a great thyrsus.

From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)

When his first Years in mighty Order ran, And cradled Infancy bespoke the Man, Around his Lips the Waxen Artists hung, And drop'd ambrosial Dew upon his Tongue.

From Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707) From Poems On Several Occasions (1707) by Cobb, Samuel

Waxen masses of laurel were filling out and flushing with the pink of blossom.

From The Roof Tree by Conrey, Lee F.