fig-leaves

In adolescence, she began helping in the workshop of the business, repairing the destroyed lower portions of old tapestries, sewing fig-leaves on to the genitalia of the naked figures on works destined for prudish American collectors.

Louise Bourgeois dies in New York, aged 98 2010

Jeff Reichert's Gerrymandering was also pretty naked in its overt partisanship, notwithstanding occasional fig-leaves of bipartisanship (like a three second expository sound bite from John Fund).

Jeff Reichert: You Can't Please Everyone 2010

Jeff Reichert's Gerrymandering was also pretty naked in its overt partisanship, notwithstanding occasional fig-leaves of bipartisanship (like a three second expository sound bite from John Fund).

Jeff Reichert: You Can't Please Everyone Jeff Reichert 2010

The chimp thing now seems to be making a resurgence thanks, in no small part, to (surprise!) the New York Daily News, which has pressed nothing less than a mini-series of opinion pieces -- or opinion pieces wearing very small fig-leaves of news ( "New York Post Offers Half-Hearted Apology ...") -- against its major metro competitor.

Ashley Rindsberg: What the Media Really Killed 2009

Most moderate Christians accept science, big bang, evolution and other theories as much, if not more so, than the idea that two people with fig-leaves on the naughty bits suddenly appeared in a well-groomed garden chock full of ripe fruit and malevolent reptiles.

On Theocracies « Whatever 2006

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.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

Eve forthwith took to fig-leaves; the slim worm knitted a shoddy wrapper and reinforced it with grains of sand when it realised that there was something better than slush for a dwelling.

My Tropic Isle 2003

There was no local colouring compared with the carregadores, or coolies, from the northeast, whose thrum-mop heads and single monkey skins for fig-leaves, spoke of the wold and the wild.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

On each side of this his long-eared aide-de-camp, in a kind of pannier, were slung his water-jars, covered with fig-leaves to protect them from the sun.

The Alhambra 2002

The slave at the same time presented a delicate little basket decorated with flowers, within which, on a couch of vine and fig-leaves, lay a peach, an apricot, and a nectarine, with their bloom and down and dewy sweetness upon them, and all in the early stage of tempting ripeness.

The Alhambra 2002