effigy
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French effigie, from Latin effigiēs (“likeness, effigy”), from effingō (“represent, portray”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]effigy (plural effigies)
- 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.
- A likeness of a person.
- 1906, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], Time and the Gods[1], London: William Heineman, →OCLC, page 1:
- 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.
Synonyms
[edit]Coordinate terms
[edit]- (crude representation of a person): caricature
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]dummy or other crude representation
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likeness of a person
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