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fig up

VERB
  1. put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive
    The young girls were all fancied up for the party
    She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera

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  • The ancients, according to Pliny, were accustomed to hang branches of the wild fig upon the domestic tree, in order that the insects which frequented the former might hasten the ripening of the cultivated fig by their punctures -- or, as others suppose, might fructify it by transporting to it the pollen of the wild fruit -- and this process, called caprification, is not yet entirely obsolete [95]. Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 02 (historical)
  • While we're on Turkey: we got six figs so far off the Brown Turkey fig up along the warm wall, and about five off the White Sicilian, which is more decorative as a specimen tree but more delicate. A tease
  • The ancients, according to Pliny, were accustomed to hang branches of the wild fig upon the domestic tree, in order that the insects which frequented the former might hasten the ripening of the cultivated fig by their punctures -- or, as others suppose, might fructify it by transporting to it the pollen of the wild fruit -- and this process, called caprification, is not yet entirely obsolete. The Earth as Modified by Human Action
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