Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
chafe-wax .
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This sudden assumption of a concrete form by the family was due to a vivid image that filled Sally's active brain immediately of a household of parched women presided over by a dried man who owned a wig on a stand and knew what chaff-wax meant, which she didn't.
Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878
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