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n. (fig leaf English)
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Fig Leaves is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, released by Fox Film Corporation, and starring George O'Brien and Olive Borden. The film had a sequence, a fashion show, filmed in Technicolor. A print of the film survives in the film archive of the Museum of Modern Art.
Usage examples of "fig leaves".
He liked the smell of fig leaves very much: they reminded him of human armpits.
Then the head of the silhouette slowly inclined downwards, and it was as if Vavara's fiery gaze saw right through the canopy of fig leaves and into Anna's and Delia's heartsand perhaps into their minds.
So he looked hard at the window where fig leaves tapped a wet windy message, and tried with all his might to find the far-away room.
We'll have to find some fig leaves, looks like, and see what is sturdy enough to make a pack or two for some vital supplies.
And then the sky turned the color of the worn fig leaves, a smoky shadow-shade, and the men who had sought Dathanja, one and all, exclaimed in fear.
He had decorated its sloping wall (it was really not more than a garret) with large photographs of pensive Andr Gide, Tchakovsky, Norman Douglas, two other well-known English writers, Nijinsky (all thighs and fig leaves), Harold D.
His breath came in shallow gasps as he tottered across the yard and sat down hard in the open air among the fallen fig leaves, resting his back against the trunk, the first stars turning far far above him in the sky and the wind rustling the foliage around the house in the tree, nearly hidden now within a leafy darkness.