1. A doll with head and bust (often also the limbs) of wax.
1828. Miss Mitford, Village, Country Barber, III. 165. A certain huge wax-doll, called Sophy, who died the usual death of wax-dolls, by falling out of the nursery-window.
1834. Dickens, Sk. Boz, Boarding-ho., i. Mrs. Tibbs … looked like a wax doll on a sunny day.
attrib. 1852. Mrs. Carlyle, New Lett. (1903), II. 50. Her wax-doll face took the fancy of Boys at that period.
2. pl. = FUMITORY.
1855. Anne Pratt, Flower. Pl., I. 81. They [the flowers of Fumaria officinalis] are rose-coloured, and tipped with purple; and children, in many parts of Kent, call then wax dolls.
1886. Britten & Holland, Plant-n.
