effigy
a representation or image, especially sculptured, as on a monument.
a crude representation of someone disliked, used for purposes of ridicule.
Idioms about effigy
in effigy, in public view in the form of an effigy: a leader hanged in effigy by the mob.
Origin of effigy
1Other words from effigy
- ef·fig·i·al [ih-fij-ee-uhl], /ɪˈfɪdʒ i əl/, adjective
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How to use effigy in a sentence
Thus the report on the Guy Fawkes effigies, which also was picked up by RT, the English-language Russian satellite channel.
Effigies of both women were burned during Deaf President Now (DPN), which received national coverage in the media.
ABC Family’s ‘Switched at Birth’ ASL Episode Recalls Gallaudet Protest | Jace Lacob | February 28, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTScotland Yard arrested late Thursday who were believed to be planning beheading effigies at the royal wedding.
At the very least, effigies of the author are often burned, and public property has been damaged in the past.
Some commentators have called the banks zombies, but effigies might be the better metaphor.
His splendid monument, with recumbent marble effigies of himself and his wife, occupies the east wall of the Hyde Chapel.
The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries | Charles G. HarperI could judge, by these decaying effigies, in the house of what a great and what a handsome race I was then wandering.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI | Robert Louis StevensonPlacards were exhibited and effigies were set up, but the people in general were quiet.
The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2 | Egerton RyersonUp to the time of Henry V. the embalmed bodies and not the effigies were displayed upon the funeral car.
Milton's England | Lucia Ames MeadSaints' effigies, to employ the quaint expression of a Roman Catholic eye-witness, "were massacred."
History of the Rise of the Huguenots | Henry Baird
British Dictionary definitions for effigy
/ (ˈɛfɪdʒɪ) /
a portrait of a person, esp as a monument or architectural decoration
a crude representation of someone, used as a focus for contempt or ridicule and often hung up or burnt in public (often in the phrases burn or hang in effigy)
Origin of effigy
1Derived forms of effigy
- effigial (ɪˈfɪdʒɪəl), adjective
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Other Idioms and Phrases with effigy
see in effigy.
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