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Noun: Madame Tussaud
  1. French modeller (resident in England after 1802) who made wax death masks of prominent victims of the French Revolution and toured Britain with her wax models; in 1835 she opened a permanent waxworks exhibition in London (1761-1850)
    - Tussaud, Marie Tussaud, Marie Grosholtz

Type of: modeler [US], modeller [Brit, Cdn]

Encyclopedia: Madame Tussaud