noun (plural effigies)
1 a statue of a famous person, a saint or a god:
stone effigies in the church
2 a model of a person that makes them look ugly:
The demonstrators burned a crude effigy of the president. * The president was burnt in effigy.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for effigy is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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