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effigy

/ˈɛfɪdʒi/

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What does effigy mean?

noun

  1. A dummy or other crude representation of a person, group or object that is hated.
  2. A likeness of a person.
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IPA pronunciation

/ˈɛfɪdʒi/

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So Hepzibah put forth her lank arm, and, taking the effigy from the shop-window, delivered it to her first customer.
Nathaniel HawthorneThe House of the Seven GablesProject Gutenberg ebook #77
If we are right in our views as to the effigy mounds of Wisconsin, then a sort of animal worship prevailed.
Emory Adams AllenThe Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished RacesProject Gutenberg ebook #2873
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Some also have an effigy of Judas, which the crew amuse themselves with keel-hauling and hanging by the neck from the yard-arms.
Richard Henry DanaTwo Years Before the MastProject Gutenberg ebook #2055
This is an effigy of Laki Pesong, the god whose special function it is to care for the welfare of the children.
Charles Hose; William McDougallThe Pagan Tribes of Borneo A Description of Their Physical Moral and Intellectual Condition, with Some Discussion of Their Ethnic RelationsProject Gutenberg ebook #3307
He had thrown off the seedy frockcoat, and now he was the Holmes of old in the mouse-coloured dressing-gown which he took from his effigy.
Arthur Conan DoyleThe Return of Sherlock HolmesProject Gutenberg ebook #108