effigy

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)

   The coin bears an effigy of Lincoln.

2. 2
   noun

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   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.

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

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