wax vesta
English
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Noun
wax vesta (plural wax vestas)
- (historical) A type of early safety match having a wax stem and a phosphorus tip.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- Suddenly I remembered that I had a tin box of wax-vestas in my pocket.
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