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fig leaf definition

fig leaf

  1. a leaf of a fig tree
  2. a representation of such a leaf used, as in sculpture, to conceal the genitals of a nude
  3. anything intended to conceal

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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