exposition vs fig leaf

exposition

noun
  • The abandonment of an unwanted child. 

  • An exhibition, especially of goods, artwork or cultural displays to the public. 

  • The act or process of declaring or describing something through either speech or writing; the portions and aspects of a piece of writing that exist mainly to describe the setting, characters and other non-plot elements. 

  • An essay or speech in which any topic is discussed in detail. 

  • An opening section in fiction, in which background information about the characters, events or setting is conveyed. 

  • The opening section of a movement in sonata form; the opening section of a fugue. 

  • The action of exposing something to something, such as skin to the sunlight. 

fig leaf

noun
  • A leaf of the fig plant. 

  • A representation of leaf of a fig plant used to cover the genitals of a nude figure in a work of art (alluding to Genesis iii 7, in which Adam and Eve use fig leaves to hide their nakedness). 

  • Anything used to conceal something undesirable or that one does not want to be discovered. 

How often have the words exposition and fig leaf occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )