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Word entry · 6 letters

effigy

Best crossword clue

"Straw protest figure"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈɛfəd͡ʒi/Part of speech nounSorted effgiyStarts with EEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)

Word origin

From French effigie, from Latin effigiēs (“likeness, effigy”), from effingō (“represent, portray”).

Used in a sentence

  • In England on Bonfire Night, an effigy is often burned.
  • All around, terrace by terrace, there went marble lawns well guarded by onyx lions and carved with effigies of all the gods striding amid the symbols of the worlds.

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