fig leaves (garments)

  1. Home
  2. top of the aat hierarchies
  3. Objects Facet
  4. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
  5. Costume (hierarchy name)
  6. costume (mode of fashion)
  7. clothing
  8. main garments
  9. [main garments for the lower body]
  10. fig leaves
Scope note
Garments comprising a leaf or a cluster of leaves, often resembling the leaves of the fig tree, used as a cover for the genitalia. Typically depicted in art works of nude figures; for example, on a statue or painting of the Biblical subject Adam and Eve.
fig leaves
Accepted term: 29-Apr-2024