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Перевод: waxwork

[существительное]
лепка из воска; восковая фигура; муляж ; паноптикум

Тезаурус:

1. Behind the wheel Tweed sat immobile as a waxwork figure.
2. WAXWORK dummy police are sat in patrol cars on Hollywood freeways to slow down speeding motorists.
3. One of Mrs Jarley's waxwork exhibits.
4. He thrust up two fingers in triumph at the driver, an old man who was as indifferent as a waxwork.
5. He sat quite still, looking like a rather odd god in a shrine or a waxwork in a box.
6. He overcame problems now with his concentration and survived an edge which went catchably past a frozen Russell, with Hick at slip completing the waxwork tableau, Munton the unlucky bowler.
7. This time they centred around the inability, on my part, to learn and remember two-and-a-half hours' solo dialogue, to look remotely like the woman I was playing, and to overcome the prejudices of the millions of Joyce-worshippers who were all sitting out there sticking pins in little waxwork Lipman dolls.
8. In life a puppet, in death a waxwork doll.
9. Certain of these reminded Rachaela of the Scarabae albums, the upright waxwork figures posed before palm trees - yet these people might once have been alive, the Scarabae had looked frozen dead for ever.
10. He heard the soft hiss as the waxwork owner's sphincter muscle collapsed.
11. The waxwork of Von Sydow held what was supposed to be a Bible but Paxton wondered if Ward might have substituted the Grimoire for the Holy Book.
12. The shutters were firmly closed at the ticket booth, the waxwork policemen staring with sightless eyes at passers-by.
13. Weirdest of all is the studio, in which a Madame Tussaud's waxwork stares out of the half-light at you from behind the control-room glass.