■ noun a place of entertainment containing instruments or scenes of torture or execution.
Origin
C19: from the name given to a room in Madame Tussaud's waxwork exhibition.
■ noun a place of entertainment containing instruments or scenes of torture or execution.
Origin
C19: from the name given to a room in Madame Tussaud's waxwork exhibition.
Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004