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sealing-wax

sealing-wax is the alternative spelling of sealing wax.

Meaning of sealing wax

Noun

sealing wax (usually uncountable, plural sealing waxes)

  1. (usually) Wax formerly melted onto a letter to seal it; the picture of the sender's seal was often pressed into the wax as evidence that the letter had not been opened.

Forms of sealing-wax

pluralsealing-waxes

Questions about sealing-wax

What is sealing-wax the alternative spelling of?
Sealing-wax is the alternative spelling of sealing wax.

Words near sealing-wax in the dictionary

  1. sealing up
  2. sealing washer
  3. sealing washers
  4. sealing wax
  5. sealing waxes
  6. sealing-wax
  7. sealing-waxes
  8. sealings
  9. sealion
  10. sealioned
  11. sealioner

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sealing-wax (page history and authors); sealing wax (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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