From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishfig leafˈfig leaf noun [countable] HBPthe large leaf of the fig tree, sometimes shown in paintings as covering people’s sex organs
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fig leaf• Within a few days of its unveiling Achilles was modestly kitted out with a fig leaf.• In other words it is Picasso without a fig leaf.• But there is more fig leaf than fact in this rationalization.• The fig leaf, however, helped little.• But this fig leaf fooled no one. 