Figurehead
"The figurehead was a Chinese dragon with an open mouth and a partly coiled tail. The hull was painted black with a contrasting sheerline strip at deck level and the spars were all bright work."
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“Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)