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WAX DOLL

Traducere în limba română

wax doll substantiv

1. păpuşi de ceară.

2. plural (bot.) fumăriţă (Fumaria officinalis).

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

My father had once been a favourite of hers, I believe; but she was mortally affronted by his marriage, on the ground that my mother was “a wax doll”.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Having seen Adele comfortably seated in her little chair by Mrs. Fairfax's parlour fireside, and given her her best wax doll (which I usually kept enveloped in silver paper in a drawer) to play with, and a story-book for change of amusement; and having replied to her Revenez bientot, ma bonne amie, ma chere Mdlle.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

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