"cover-shame" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "* cover + shame",
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          "ref": "1659, Edmund Gayton, chapter 31, in The Art of Longevity:",
          "text": "Give place then exprobrating fruit, and come / Thou Cover-shame, old Fig-tree, in the Room: / Though men of all the fruit, that hangs o'th' tree, / Should love none less for your obscurity",
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          "ref": "1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Friar, act 3, scene 2; republished in The Works of John Dryden, volume 6, Edinburgh: Archibold Constable and Co., 1821, page 428:",
          "text": "O impudence! O rogue! O villain! Nay, if he be such a man, my righteous spirit rises at him! Does he put on holy garments, for a cover-shame of lewdness?",
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          "ref": "1838, Richard Sibbes, chapter 25, in The Bruised Reed and Smoking Flax, page 122:",
          "text": "If this were believed, men would make more account of sincerity, which will only give us boldness, and not seek for cover-shames; the confidence whereof, as it maketh men now more presumptuous, so it will expose them hereafter to the greater shame.",
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        "Something used to conceal infamy."
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        "(obsolete) Something used to conceal infamy."
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        "A plant, savin (Juniperus sabina), which was historically used as both a contraceptive and to induce abortions."
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