Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An effigy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
effigy .
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- noun Plural form of
effigy .
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Examples
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Dye stamps squeeze 'effigies' - the head and tail images - into the blanks, turning them into coins.
Home | Mail Online 2009
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I don't recall effigies of previous PMs burnt by angry crowds in the middle East and chanting wishing he was dead.
EXCLUSIVE: Locals Object to Blairs' New Home Planning Application 2007
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For the effigies so burned, as I have already remarked, can hardly be separated from the effigies of Death which are burned or otherwise destroyed in spring; and grounds have been already given for regarding the so-called effigies of Death as really representatives of the tree-spirit or spirit of vegetation.
Chapter 64. The Burning of Human Beings in the Fires. § 1. The Burning of Effigies in the Fires 1922
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For the effigies so burned, as I have already remarked, can hardly be separated from the effigies of Death which are burned or otherwise destroyed in spring; and grounds have been already given for regarding the so-called effigies of Death as really representatives of the tree-spirit or spirit of vegetation.
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For the effigies so burned, as I have already remarked, can hardly be separated from the effigies of Death which are burned or otherwise destroyed in spring; and grounds have been already given for regarding the so-called effigies of Death as really representatives of the tree-spirit or spirit of vegetation.
The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897
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For the effigies so burned, as I have already remarked, can hardly be separated from the effigies of Death which are burned or otherwise destroyed in spring; and grounds have been already given for regarding the so-called effigies of Death as really representatives of the tree-spirit or spirit of vegetation.
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The volume devoted to Shakespeare's portraits was purchased by Mr Burton, at the sale of a gentleman's library, who had spent many years in making the collection, and includes various 'effigies' unknown to many laborious collectors.
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton
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Small metallic figures wearing hard-hats -- known in industry parlance as "effigies,"
TheTyee.ca 2010
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( "effigies") of both king and queen to be erected at the Royal
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Of course the Left is the side of saints and angels; if they believed in them; with Bush effigies in nooses and the like.
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