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Definitions of effigies in various dictionaries:
noun - a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)
noun - a likeness or representation
EFFIGIES - An effigy is a representation of a specific person in the form of sculpture or some other three-dimensional medium. The use of the term is normally r...
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| Plural form of effigy. |
| a sculpture or model of a person. |
| A sculpture or model of a person. |
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An effigy is a representation of a specific person in the form of sculpture or some other three-dimensional medium. The use of the term is normally restricted to certain contexts in a somewhat arbitrary way: recumbent effigies on tombs are so called, but standing statues of individuals, or busts, are usually not. Likenesses of religious figures in sculpture are not normally called effigies. Effigies are common elements of funerary art, especially as a recumbent effigy (in a lying position) in stone or metal placed on a tomb, or a less permanent "funeral effigy", placed on the coffin in a grand funeral, wearing real clothing. Figures, often caricatural in style, that are damaged, destroyed or paraded in order to harm the person represented by magical means, or merely to mock or insult them or their memory, are also called effigies. * It is common to burn an effigy of a person ("burn in effigy") as an act of protest. * The word is first documented in English in 1539 and comes, perhaps via F |