All 3 Uses of
effigy
in
Light in August
- She produces a metal box and unlocks it with a key suspended about her neck and takes out a cloth sack which she opens and produces a small china effigy of a rooster with a slot in its back.†
Chpt 1
- He was lying so, on his back, his hands crossed on his breast like a tomb effigy, when he heard again feet on the cramped stairs.†
Chpt 7 *
- Until that baby was born and she found some means by which she could stand alone, as it were, she had been like an effigy with a mechanical voice being hauled about on a cart by that fellow Bunch and made to speak when he gave the signal, as when he took her last night to tell her story to Doctor Hightower.†
Chpt 19
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