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								Streaming, flaxen, waxen"Waxen" didn't mean you should be waxing your hair off. Archive 2007-11-01 Ann Althouse 2007 
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								Waxen statues with clothes and hair were displayed across the gates. Salammbo 2003 
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								Waxen and Lady were here a monday, and send their Love to you. Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 16 October 1774 1963 
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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. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various 
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								Waxen swans swam on this lake, and were mirrored in it. 
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								Waxen swans swam on this lake, and were mirrored in it. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906 
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								Waxen white, pendulous, liliaceous flowers in a great thyrsus. 
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								Waxen white, his lips smiled their courteous greeting upon her, his tone was measured and cold as ever. A Prince of Sinners 1906 
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								When the first Crash of Music came through the hothouse Palms, Walter would be out on the Waxen Floor with his hair in a Braid. Ade's Fables George Ade 1905 
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								When the first Crash of Music came through the hothouse Palms, Walter would be out on the Waxen Floor with his hair in a Braid. Ade's Fables George Ade 1905 
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