noun
[ sing. ] a part of a museum displaying objects used to kill people in a cruel and painful way or scenes showing how they died
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WORD ORIGIN
mid 19th cent.: from the name given to a room in Madame Tussaud's waxwork exhibition.
noun
[ sing. ] a part of a museum displaying objects used to kill people in a cruel and painful way or scenes showing how they died
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WORD ORIGIN
mid 19th cent.: from the name given to a room in Madame Tussaud's waxwork exhibition.
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary. Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне. 2005