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wax vesta en · NOUN
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(historical) A type of early safety match having a wax stem and a phosphorus tip.
Of their boxes of wax vestas, two were completely ruined, the heads soft from sweat.
1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 150:Suddenly I remembered that I had a tin box of wax-vestas in my pocket.
1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
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