1AVS[countableC] a statue of a famous person 〔名人的〕雕像,塑像
effigy of
an effigy of Saint Francis
圣方济各的雕像
2PS[uncountableU] a roughly made, usually ugly, model of someone you dislike 〔丑化人的〕模拟像
a threat to burn the president in effigy
威胁要焚烧总统模拟像
Examples from the Corpus
effigy• I could not even bayonet an effigy of Kaiser Bill convincingly.• An effigy of Mr MacSharry was burned by protestingfarmers in Strasbourg last week in a violent protest against the deal.• There was no crew but effigies of sailors lined the decks.• Candidates who wanted enclosure were burned in effigy, their supporterswheeled 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.• During the annualPope Day at Newport and Boston, crowds burned the pope in effigy.• There he lay, in knightlystoneeffigy, with a row of eight knights in stone cartoon-strip below him.• Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, as depicted in his tombeffigy.