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effigy

noun as in dummy

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In South Carolina, he “appeared suspended, on a gallows seventy feet high” to the right of another stamp collector’s effigy.

It was a festive affair, with a balloon ascending to the sky and effigies of infamous abolitionists to burn along with the newspapers below their feet.

From Time

That is why, on those great careening carts Americans hauled through town on Pope’s Day, the pontiff himself, and his hellish master, were made in effigy looking ridiculous, but also monstrous, dressed in tar and feathers.

Picket signs decried IBM customers in Texas as “traitors,” while the University of Wisconsin YAF hung a cardboard effigy of a computer outside of the Madison office.

They lit candles at their windows and in front of the many effigies of Maradona that dot Napoli’s streets and its homes, often alongside saints.

From Quartz

Somebody built an effigy of President Peña Nieto that was 20 feet high.

When the civilian President Maduro burns in effigy, soldiers can still warm their hands around the flames.

Meanwhile, in South Yorkshire, anti-Thatcher activists burned an effigy of the controversial leader.

If diplomatic relations keep deteriorating, an effigy of the queen may not be far behind.

In May, an effigy of FitzPatrick was burned on the streets of Dublin.

This was that Alderman Henry Smith whose tomb and effigy are so conspicuous in the parish church.

Even if they failed to obtain it the funeral rites were duly paid to an effigy of the deceased.

Sedgrave, the mayor, who had sat quiet during the former service, produced a rosary and prayed openly before the bloody effigy.

It has his effigy in armour, with an ermined mantle, his feet leaning against a lion couchant.

The last flickering embers of the burning effigy died out and the scene was almost dark.

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On this page you'll find 35 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to effigy, such as: likeness, statue, figure, icon, idol, and image.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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