All 10 Uses of
wax
in
This Lullaby, by Sarah Dessen
- In the next hour I got the two women waiting to their manicures, ordered lunch for Lola, did the receipts from the day before, and between two eyebrow waxings and an underarm job I heard every gory detail about Talinga's most recent disastrous blind date.†
Chpt 3 *
- She was walking stiffly-bikini waxes were especially brutal-as she came up to my desk.†
Chpt 3
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- "Bikini wax," I explained.†
Chpt 3
- In the year I'd worked at Joie Salon, I'd heard more cussing from the back room where Talinga worked her wax strips than all the other rooms combined.†
Chpt 3 *
- Now, the phone rang as Mrs. Michaels emerged from the waxing room.†
Chpt 3
- Can you bikini wax?†
Chpt 3
- Three hours later, when the drama had finally subsided and Lola's customer had left with a bandaged scalp, a hefty gift certificate, and a written promise of eyebrow waxing for life, I finally got to lock the cash drawer, get my purse, and walk outside.†
Chpt 5
- But for some reason I was distracted, ringing up Mrs. Jameson's hair streaking as a bikini wax and then charging her fifty bucks instead of five for some cuticle cream.†
Chpt 13
- And eyebrow waxing.†
Chpt 15
- Which was fine, actually, since Amanda had already fallen asleep on the table in the waxing room and Lola and Talinga were finishing off the cake and bemoaning whose love life was more pathetic.†
Chpt 15
Definitions:
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(1)
(wax as in: the moon is waxing) a gradual increase (in size or strength or power or number) -- especially the part of the moon that is visible
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(2)
(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus:
More commonly, wax is used to refer to a soft substance that melts when warmed and is seen in candles, crayons, beehives, polishes, and even the human ear. The word can also be used as a verb to refer to rubbing a coat of wax onto something such as a car or floor or furniture to protect it from water and/or improve appearance. Wax put on a surfboard also provides less slippery footing than the fiberglass board.
Wax can also be used as a verb to refer to the process of removing hair from the body by applying warm wax to the area being treated and pulling it off after it has cooled around the hair, so that the hair is pulled out from the root.
Less commonly, wax can refer to a stated manner of speech or writing; e.g., "She waxed eloquent," means that she talked in an eloquent manner. "She waxed on," means that talked more or for a longer time.