A type of wax that is green in color, or historically a legal seal or record marked with green wax.
Compound of 'green' and 'wax,' referring to sealing wax colored green. Historically important for legal documents, this term appears in old English records referring to official documents sealed with this material.
Official documents in medieval England were sealed with colored wax—green wax, red wax, black wax—each signaling different types of legal or governmental importance, making the wax color itself a status symbol!
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