Meanings of emblematic figure in English

Her father almost represented an emblematic figure, seated upon a column of books.

On each side is an emblematic figure enclosed in an oval; the figures are different, but their surroundings are alike.

But it is her personal story and long fight for justice that has made her an emblematic figure for supporters around Brazil.

This question agonised the Muslim thinker Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali (1058-1111), a crucial and emblematic figure in the history of religious philosophy.

These, with a few emblematic figures, all admirably well executed, make its principal value.

We notice some fine emblematic figures, the germs of great artistic motives in after times, already playing their parts there,-Death ,andSleep, and Night.