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  1. fig leafnoun

    a leaf from a fig tree

  2. fig leafnoun

    a covering consisting of anything intended to conceal something regarded as shameful

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  1. British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond:

    Is Russia really committed to a peace process or is it using the peace process as a fig leaf to try to deliver some kind of military victory for Assad that creates an Alawite mini state in the northwest of Syria?

  2. Dev Wakeley:

    No one had any faith that the state of Alabama was going to have voters' best interests at heart, we expected a little more of an attempt at a fig leaf by Supreme Courts.


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