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Перевод: waxen

[прилагательное]
восковой; мягкий как воск; вощеный; бесцветный; бледный

Тезаурус:

1. The lily leaves lay flat on the surface, their flowers waxen crimson and palest yellow, their stems tough, glutinous, slippery, a tangle of entrails.
2. When they were about twenty yards from the house, Jackie signalled them to crouch down behind a large bush covered in strange waxen blooms, like roses, only they weren't.
3. May was the month to see it to best advantage: azaleas spilled cascades of coral and blood-red flowers over the pathways, lilac bushes waved their plump, perfumed arms, interspersed by spiky sentinels of variegated holly, and overhead, leaning in regally protective attitudes, the magnolia trees spread a lustrous canopy of waxen, creamy blooms.
4. In the chill of Winter the Yew Fairy sits dreamily amidst the waxen berries.
5. Jack looked doubtfully at the waxen face of his stepfather.
6. He saw the intense charm of bourgeois Victorian decor many years before the onset of Betjemania, and was an early collector of such objects of mild fantasy as waxen fruits in tall glass domes and crenellated jelly moulds.
7. Around the hulk clung the waxen coils of the hydra like some giant wreath of spilled intestines.
8. And here was an inspection panel of close-set steel mesh embedded in the wall, sealed with waxen evil-eye hexes and painted with a faded inscription in the hieratic tongue: Hoc sacrificium consecrat nos muros .
9. When the bells rang and the bishop blessed the people and her cousin, Gayane, went to church, holding a child by each hand, Astrik turned her waxen face away.
10. He had stooped to kiss her cold cheek and smelt in the hollow of her neck the waxen odour of death.
11. He had burned it himself on the fire he had made against the fruit-garden wall and it might be that no copies of it existed, yet in his mind's eye it recreated itself, the child for ever stilled, its face a waxen mask, the old doctor haggard with sorrow and lack of sleep, the mirror no breath had misted held in his hand, the parents in each other's arms.
12. This design cannot be dismissed as an automatic and inevitable consequence of building cells closely together, for bumble bees also make waxen cells and theirs are irregular bag-shaped containers, jumbled untidily together.
13. Some do so secretively, creeping in quietly among the swarm of busy workers, quickly depositing an egg in a waxen cell alongside those belonging to the builders and slipping out again unremarked.