effigy

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛfəd͡ʒi/

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effigy (plural effigies)

1. A dummy or other crude representation of a person, group or object that is hated.

   In England on Bonfire Night, an effigy is often burned.

2. A likeness of a person.
   • 1906, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], Time and the Gods‎, London: William Heineman, →OCLC, page 1:

     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.

• (a likeness of a person): figure, image, picture

• (crude representation of a person): caricature