waxen (adj.)

  1. made of or covered with wax; waxen candles; careful, the floor is waxy

    [ Syn: waxy ]

  2. having the paleness of wax; the poor face with the same awful waxen pallor- Bram Stoker; the soldier turned his waxlike features toward him; a thin face with a waxy paleness

    [ Syn: waxlike , waxy ]

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