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- noun Plural form of
figleaf .
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But let's not start clucking and demanding the figleaves go on please.
New Movie Quotes Fellow McCain POW Saying McCain Not Fit To Be President 2009
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"Penumbras and emanations" are only intellectual figleaves for raw will-to-power.
The embarassment of privacy jurisprudence Mike L 2005
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"Penumbras and emanations" are only intellectual figleaves for raw will-to-power.
Archive 2005-10-01 Mike L 2005
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And besides, there is no lack of figleaves of any kind.
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Underneath your mini you will, of course, be sporting some cosy tights - FS highly recommends Falke for their lovely, and amazingly long-lasting, merino ones £19 at figleaves.com.
The Guardian World News Kate Carter 2011
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Cleo by Panache, Sasha non-padded balconette bra, 28D-36J, £23; figleaves.com.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Hiddekel and Euphrates, how serpents moved before they were condemned to crawl, and where Eve found thread to stitch her figleaves.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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But howsoever men may mock themselves with such evasions, yet God will not be mocked, who knows that he left the soul in its own keeping, and made the will free, and not to be forced: and therefore these figleaves will fall off, when he shall come to scrutiny and examination.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V. 1634-1716 1823
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Harriet Harman tears into the figleaves | Simon Hoggart's sketch
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