A fig-leaf - Фиговый листок

A fig-leaf is used to denote a device for concealing what is indecorous 01 shameful. It appears in the Bible narrative of the fall of man. (See: To eat of the tree of knowledge.) The term was spread and preserved from being forgotten due to the fact that in the period from the 16th to the 18th centuries the sculptors always applied a fig-leaf in depicting a naked body, for the realistic representation of nakedness was considered sinful by the church.

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