Usually means: Covering to symbolize modesty, concealment.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. fig leaf: Merriam-Webster
  2. fig leaf: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fig leaf: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fig leaf: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fig leaf: Vocabulary.com
  6. fig-leaf, fig leaf: Wordnik
  7. fig leaf: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fig-leaf, fig leaf: Wiktionary
  9. fig leaf: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Fig leaf, fig leaf: Dictionary.com
  11. Fig leaf: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. fig leaf: Rhymezone
  13. fig leaf: FreeDictionary.org
  14. fig leaf: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. fig leaf: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. fig leaf: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fig leaf: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. fig leaf: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (fig leaf)

noun:  A leaf of the fig plant.
noun:  A representation of leaf of a fig plant used to cover the genitals of a nude figure in a work of art (alluding to Genesis iii 7, in which Adam and Eve use fig leaves to hide their nakedness).
noun:  (figuratively) Anything used to conceal something undesirable or that one does not want to be discovered.

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