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What does effigy mean?

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Noun
  1. A dummy or other crude representation of a person, group or object that is hated.
  2. A likeness of a person.
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Queen Victoria's effigy, in various stages of queenliness, stands at many points in the metropolis.
These were endowments to pay for masses to be sung, usually near a tomb or effigy, for the repose of one or more souls in purgatory.
As colonists' anger over the Stamp Act built, a tax official was burned in effigy from the limbs of an elm estimated to be 120 years old.
After the public procession, the effigy is buried, destroyed, or abandoned in the forest.
The protesters also burned an effigy of the House of Representatives Speaker.
A university student was sentenced on Wednesday to five months in jail for burning an effigy of the President during a protest march last year.

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