All 3 Uses of
effigy
in
The Road, by McCarthy
- In the produce section in the bottom of the bins they found a few ancient runner beans and what looked to have once been apricots, long dried to wrinkled effigies of themselves.†
*effigies = models or other representations
- The tank beneath was filled with charcoal, pieces burned out of whole sticks and limbs in carbon effigies of the trees themselves.†
- A vast low swale where ferns and hydrangeas and wild orchids lived on in ashen effigies which the wind had not yet reached.†
Definition:
a model or other representation -- typically of a person -- often of someone hated, so that it can be mocked and abused