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Sealing wax   /sˈilɪŋ wæks/   Listen
Sealing wax

noun
1.
Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm; used for sealing documents and parcels and letters.  Synonym: seal.






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"Sealing wax" Quotes from Famous Books



... save that in place of a signature there was a splotch of red sealing wax. The wax had been stamped with an iron seal. The mark of the seal was that of the Radical Clan—the same as that on the envelope ...
— Triple Spies • Roy J. Snell

... have had half as many lessons from Gigue, and I should never have been able to write to you without the Mere Superieure spying into my letters. That's why none of the girls are allowed to have sealing wax, because all their letters are ungummed over a basin of hot water and read before going to post. Discipline, discipline! Torquemada's Inquisition was nothing to it! Of course I had to tell the Mere Superieure that you had sent for me, and that I should be away all summer. She asked heaps of ...
— God's Good Man • Marie Corelli

... encased in cotton, packed in the smallest compass, stowed in a wooden box, which was then sewed up in a gunny sacking. This in turn was wrapped in colored paper, tied with bows of pink ribbon and sealed with blue sealing wax stamped with the crest of the school—VIRTUS SEMPER VIRIDIS. The whole was placed on a table at the legs of which were ...
— The Varmint • Owen Johnson

... prepared for mailing. Into the genuine case I put the bogus diamonds. After handing the box to Dubois, I turned down a side street, and then into another whose name I do not know, and there in a shop with sealing wax and string did up the real diamonds for posting. I labelled the package "Books", went to the nearest post office, paid letter postage, and handed it over unregistered as if it were of no particular value. After this I went to my rooms in the Grand Hotel where I had ...
— The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont • Robert Barr

... of sealing wax, of course?" suggested Allerdyke. "Take care that some of the brass sticks when you handle ...
— The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation • J. S. Fletcher

... reserve for his journey back to France, and stood chatting over old times with the fat, oily-faced Greek manager as the latter tied up his cigarettes into a clean white paper parcel, neatly sealed up with red sealing wax. ...
— Okewood of the Secret Service • Valentine Williams



Words linked to "Sealing wax" :   fastener, holdfast, lac, fastening, fixing



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