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n. (alternative spelling of fig leaf English)
Usage examples of "fig-leaf".
The thatched piers were crowded with turbaned Mussulmen in their bajus or short jackets, full white trousers, and red sarongs or plaitless kilts--the boys dressed in silver fig-leaves and silver bangles only.
And I am come to help you shed away your extra skins - your fig-leaf aprons - that you may help all yearners in the world to shed away theirs, too.
Sean took it from him and examined it, a piece of broken china with a blue fig-leaf pattern.
Even as a science student it had seemed to her a jobs-for-the-boys project dominated by aviators and engineers, a bid for power and wealth by the military-industrial complex, with science goals a fig-leaf justification at best, just as manned space travel always had been.
Downstairs, wading through sandals, daggers, laurel wreaths, fallen fig-leaves, place cards, cigarette ends, condoms and burst balloons, Lysander breathed in a stench of sex, stale tobacco and half-full glasses.