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Tussaud

noun
1.
French modeler (resident in England after 1802) who made wax death masks of prominent victims of the French Revolution and toured Britain with her wax models; in 1835 she opened a permanent waxworks exhibition in London (1761-1850).  Synonyms: Madame Tussaud, Marie Grosholtz, Marie Tussaud.






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"Tussaud" Quotes from Famous Books



... do you turn in when you want to kick up your heels a bit? Madame Tussaud's? I say, why on earth didn't you talk to that old bloke next to you at dinner? He was trying all he ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, August 1, 1891 • Various

... entertainment. The theory is perfect, but I'm afraid we need a programme. Now, on my own first visit to London I remember being taken—by the hand—to Madame Tussaud's Waxworks, the Tower, St Paul's Cathedral, the fishmarket at Billingsgate, the British Museum, and a number of other damnably edifying spectacles. You might naturally suppose that after such a round it would ...
— The Lunatic at Large • J. Storer Clouston

... Brunhilde behaves rather like Dido in the end: nearly everybody, more or less, is murdered off, and there is a sort of Madame Tussaud exhibition in the clouds at the curtain. Of course, I haven't really given you any sort of an idea about it at all. There are no words that will adequately describe it, only I promised to give you a detailed personal ...
— The Smart Set - Correspondence & Conversations • Clyde Fitch

... it all, ridiculous stray memories of Madame Tussaud would come stealing into our ghastly dream of blood and retribution, mixing up past and present and future in a manner not to be described, and making us ...
— Peter Ibbetson • George du Marier et al



Words linked to "Tussaud" :   Marie Grosholtz, modeller, Marie Tussaud, modeler



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