meaning of effigy
1. The image, likeness, or representation of a person, whether a full figure, or a part; an imitative figure; -- commonly applied to sculptured likenesses, as those on monuments, or to those of the heads of princes on coins and medals, sometimes applied to portraits.
2. a representation of a person especially in the form of sculpture; "the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln"; "the emperors tomb had his image carved in
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