effigyef‧fi‧gy /ˈefɪdʒi/ noun (plural effigies) 
an effigy of Saint Francis2[uncountable] a roughly made, usually ugly, model of someone you dislike: a threat to burn the president in effigy
WORD ORIGINeffigy
Origin:
1500-1600 Latin effigies, from effingere ‘to form’EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- An effigy of Mr MacSharry was burned by protesting farmers in Strasbourg last week in a violent protest against the deal.
- Candidates who wanted enclosure were burned in effigy, their supporters wheeled about in muck-carts in the robust eighteenth-century fashion.
- During the annual Pope Day at Newport and Boston, crowds burned the pope in effigy.
- Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, as depicted in his tomb effigy.
- I could not even bayonet an effigy of Kaiser Bill convincingly.
- The mob had already burnt in effigy Andrew Oliver and his new stamp office before doing some damage to his house.
- There he lay, in knightly stone effigy, with a row of eight knights in stone cartoon-strip below him.
- There was no crew but effigies of sailors lined the decks.
WORD SETS
bas-relief, nounbronze, nounbust, nouncarve, verbcarver, nouncarving, nouncast, verbcasting, nounchisel, verbeffigy, nounhigh relief, nounivory, nounmarble, nounpedestal, nounplaster, nounplaster cast, nounplaster of Paris, nounsculpt, verbsculptor, nounsculpture, nounsculptured, adjectivestatuary, nounstatue, nounstatuette, nountorso, nounwoodcarving, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY a threat to burn the president in effigyCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB
1[countable] a statue of a famous personeffigy of a threat to burn the president in effigy· There are numerous harvest customs throughout this country and abroad, and some involve burning the straw effigy of such a figure.· The mob had already burnt in effigy Andrew Oliver and his new stamp office before doing some damage to his house.
an effigy of Saint Francis2[uncountable] a roughly made, usually ugly, model of someone you dislike: a threat to burn the president in effigy- secularist
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