Cutting lead, White Lotus recast key figure (10)
I believe the answer is:
silhouette
'figure' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
I don't understand how the remainder of the clue works.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for silhouette that I've seen before include "Outline figure" , "Shadowy outline" , "Profile of characters" , "Outline representation" , "image" .)