full fig
Example Sentences
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Glossy magazines are stuffed with hunts in full cry, yachts in full sail, garden parties in full fig.
From Time Magazine Archive
As summer set in with his usual severity, Winter must not be behindhand with him; but after an occasional week's rain of a commendably boisterous character, must come out in full fig of frost.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by John Wilson
Lo! is not one of the Queen's Pyebalds, in full fig, as great and foolish a monster?
From The Book of Snobs by William Makepeace Thackeray
Winter—we declare—and in full fig with his powdered wig!
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by John Wilson
You fellows will never be seen till you are in full fig.
From Tony Butler by Charles James Lever
