candle wax

See also: candlewax

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Noun

candle wax (countable and uncountable, plural candle waxes)

  1. Any material, such as stearin or tallow, used to make the body of candles
    • 2008, Denis Beckett, “Explaining prawns”, in Magenta, Scottsville, Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press; Johannesburg: Saga Press, →ISBN, page 83:
      She is not beaming at all. Her mouth is set like the wardress of Belsen wishing to boil Joyous’s chubby cheeks into candle wax.

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any material used to make the body of candles

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