effigy

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Sculptureeffigyef‧fi‧gy /ˈefɪdʒi/ noun (plural effigies) 1 AVS[countable] a statue of a famous personeffigy of an effigy of Saint Francis2 PS[uncountable] a roughly made, usually ugly, model of someone you dislike a threat to burn the president in effigyExamples from the Corpuseffigy• There was no crew but effigies of sailors lined the decks.• Candidates who wanted enclosure were burned in effigy, their supporters wheeled about in muck-carts in the robust eighteenth-century fashion.• 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.• Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, as depicted in his tomb effigy.effigy of• Protesters unveiled an effigy of the mayor.burn ... in effigy• The mob had already burnt in effigy Andrew Oliver and his new stamp office before doing some damage to his house.Origin effigy (1500-1600) Latin effigies, from effingere “to form”

单词	effigy
释义	effigy From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Sculptureeffigyef‧fi‧gy /ˈefɪdʒi/ noun (plural effigies) 1 AVS[countable] a statue of a famous personeffigy of an effigy of Saint Francis2 PS[uncountable] a roughly made, usually ugly, model of someone you dislike a threat to burn the president in effigyExamples from the Corpuseffigy• There was no crew but effigies of sailors lined the decks.• Candidates who wanted enclosure were burned in effigy, their supporters wheeled about in muck-carts in the robust eighteenth-century fashion.• 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.• Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, as depicted in his tomb effigy.effigy of• Protesters unveiled an effigy of the mayor.burn ... in effigy• The mob had already burnt in effigy Andrew Oliver and his new stamp office before doing some damage to his house.Origin effigy (1500-1600) Latin effigies, from effingere “to form”
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