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Grammar : Noun



Definition of fig leaf

  • As in mask : noun false face, cover
  • As in pretext : noun disguise; alleged reason
  • As in concealment : noun hiding, secrecy
  • As in cover : noun wrapping, cover-up
  • As in disguise : noun covering, makeup for deception
Example sentences :
  • I will send up your cloak, which is barely bigger than a fig leaf, when I can.
  • Extract from : « Letters of Edward FitzGerald » by Edward FitzGerald
  • You agree with me, don't you, my dear, that it is not necessary to have more than a fig leaf?
  • Extract from : « Introduction to the Science of Sociology » by Robert E. Park
  • "It is merely a fig leaf which this Adam is employing to hide his shame," said Luther.
  • Extract from : « History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century, Vol 2 » by J. H. Merle D'Aubign
  • It started by sketching a history of the petticoat, beginning with Eve's fig leaf and working up.
  • Extract from : « Personality Plus » by Edna Ferber
  • First you must know that several tribes go completely naked and wear but the fig leaf.
  • Extract from : « Montreal 1535-1914 under the French Rgime » by William Henry Atherton
  • This girl wore a small piece of bark, in guise of a fig leaf, which was the sole approximation to clothing seen among them.
  • Extract from : « A Voyage to Terra Australis Volume 2 » by Matthew Flinders
  • After the devil had made all the trouble for woman he could with the fig leaf, he introduced the French heel.
  • Extract from : « An Ambitious Man » by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • And if they do not encounter energetic opposition the fig leaf will soon among us also attest the fall of taste and of the soul.
  • Extract from : « The Morality of Woman and Other Essays » by Ellen Key

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