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For anyone confused about the term "figleaf", I assume it's a reference to fig leafs being used by Renaissance artists to mask genitalia. So "things concealing

by 3np 5y ago

For anyone confused about the term "figleaf", I assume it's a reference to fig leafs being used by Renaissance artists to mask genitalia. So "things concealing the naked truth" approximately.

jsmith99 5y ago
It's older than that: it's a biblical reference to Adam and Eve covering themselves.
- 3np 5y ago
  My memory serves me wrong; thought that it being a fig leaf in particular was newer than the Bible but it's not (Genesis 1:3:7)