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Effigy

//ˈɛfəd͡ʒi// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A dummy or other crude representation of a person, group or object that is hated.

    "In England on Bonfire Night, an effigy is often burned."

  2. 2
    a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture) wordnet
  3. 3
    A likeness of a person.

    "All around, terrace by terrace, there went marble lawns well guarded by onyx lions and carved with effigies of all the gods striding amid the symbols of the worlds."

Etymology

From French effigie, from Latin effigiēs (“likeness, effigy”), from effingō (“represent, portray”).

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