wax-vesta
English
Noun
wax-vesta (plural wax-vestas)
- 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 1029993343:
- Suddenly I remembered that I had a tin box of wax-vestas in my pocket.
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