Crossword-Solution: FIGLEAF
We have 20 clues for the answer “FIGLEAF”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Cover of the Bible | 1 answer |
| Sticking plaster to hide modesty? | 1 answer |
| Symbol of decency | 1 answer |
| Shameful cover-up? | 1 answer |
| Part of a Genesis-inspired costume | 1 answer |
| First garment material | 1 answer |
| First clothing | 1 answer |
| Eden attire | 1 answer |
| Adam's apparel? | 1 answer |
| Cover for Adam | 1 answer |
| Coolest wear | 1 answer |
| Briefs of Eden? | 1 answer |
| Bit of Eden apparel | 1 answer |
| Attire in Eden | 1 answer |
| Adam's shameful cover-up? | 1 answer |
| Adam's garb? | 1 answer |
| Adam's cover | 1 answer |
| Fall fashion? | 2 answers |
| Biblical cover-up | 2 answers |
| Signs of modesty | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EMCZEA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with FIGLEAF (4)
True, all hideous regimes had their figleaf intellectuals and with a few exceptions, the regimes in the Balkans are not hideous.
But one cannot reduce an adult to the simplicity and innocence of childhood by stripping off all his clothes, and denying him the conventional figleaf.
Take a brace of partridges, stuff them with the livers of the birds minced up together with butter and some truffles which have been cooked in champagne; wrap each bird up in a figleaf or vineleaf, and over these place a sheet of buttered paper.
Modernity here wore a figleaf; wax candles were burned instead of gas or electric light; and even the telephone was enshrined in a Florentine casket.
Quotes with FIGLEAF (1)
Congress often covers the exposed crotch of our human spaceflight program with the figleaf of science when it's an obvious lie to justify the pumping of billions of dollars into the belly of an ever-voracious aerospace industrial complex. And yes, of course space is dangerous.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 14 times in crossword archives (1974–2023).