Silhouette vs Effigy - What's the difference?
silhouette | effigy |
An illustrated outline filled in with a solid color(s), usually only black, and intended to represent the shape of an object without revealing any other visual details; a similar appearance produced when the object being viewed is situated in relative darkness with brighter lighting behind it; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be.
To represent by a silhouette; to project upon a background, so as to be like a silhouette.
English eponyms
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a dummy or other crude representation of a person, group or object that is hated.
a likeness of a person.
As a verb silhouette
is .As a noun effigy is
a dummy or other crude representation of a person, group or object that is hated.silhouette
English
(wikipedia silhouette)Noun
(en noun)- I could see a silhouette of a figure looking out from the window, but I couldn't tell if it was a man or a woman.
