Synonyms:
effigy, image, simulacrum
Meaning: a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture); "the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln"; "the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone"
Usage examples
Like the tattered effigy in a cornfield
Maybe Rakkeed wanted the dog, to kill before a congregation of his followers, killing us by proxy, or in effigy.
Let me assure you that the treaty with Great Britain will be made though every city in the Union burn me in effigy."
He saw, the history says, the very countenance, the very face, the very look, the very physiognomy, the very effigy, the very image of the bachelor Samson Carrasco!
The weather-stained effigy of the mounted king, with its vague suggestion of a saluting gesture, seemed to present an inscrutable breast to the political changes which had robbed it of its very name; but neither did the other horseman, well known to the people, keen and alive on his well-shaped, slate-coloured beast with a white eye, wear his heart on the sleeve of his English coat.