Both Uses of
effigy
in
Jane Eyre
- I liked the hush, the gloom, the quaintness of these retreats in the day; but I by no means coveted a night's repose on one of those wide and heavy beds: shut in, some of them, with doors of oak; shaded, others, with wrought old English hangings crusted with thick work, portraying effigies of strange flowers, and stranger birds, and strangest human beings, — all which would have looked strange, indeed, by the pallid gleam of moonlight.†
Chpt 11
- His idea was still with me, because it was not a vapour sunshine could disperse, nor a sand-traced effigy storms could wash away; it was a name graven on a tablet, fated to last as long as the marble it inscribed.†
Chpt 34 *
Definition:
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(effigy as in: burned in effigy) a model or other representation -- typically of a person -- often of someone hated, so that it can be mocked and abused