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Veil   /veɪl/   Listen
Veil

noun
(Written also vail)
1.
A garment that covers the head and face.  Synonym: head covering.
2.
A membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms.  Synonym: velum.
3.
The inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth).  Synonyms: caul, embryonic membrane.
4.
A vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl.  Synonym: humeral veil.
verb
(past & past part. veiled; pres. part. veiling)  (Written also vail)
1.
To obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil.
2.
Make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing.  Synonyms: blot out, hide, obliterate, obscure.  "A veiled threat"



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"Veil" Quotes from Famous Books



... wait. Almost with the closing of the street door upon the detectives and their prisoners, Mr. Blake followed by Mrs. Daniels and another lady whose thick veil and long cloak but illy concealed the patrician features and stately form of the Countess ...
— A Strange Disappearance • Anna Katharine Green
... mythology veil past events in more or less obscurity, they do, in regard to circumcision, furnish considerable explanatory light on matters which would be otherwise hard to reconcile. Circumcision has been performed by the Chippeways, ...
— History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present - Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance • Peter Charles Remondino
... said she was mad: with the result that she lost her head completely. He declared that he would never let her marry Olivier. She vowed that she would marry him. The veil was rent. He saw that he was nothing to her. In his fatherly egoism it had never occurred to him, and he was angry. He swore that neither Olivier nor Christophe should ever set foot inside his house again. Jacqueline lost her temper, ...
— Jean-Christophe Journey's End • Romain Rolland
... Her veil was down when I first saw her. Her features and her expression were but indistinctly visible to me. I could just vaguely perceive that she was young and beautiful; but, beyond this, though I might imagine much, I could ...
— Basil • Wilkie Collins
... for those whose mates had been torn from them, and Jean with a face flushed by talk. On ordinary occasions the majesty of the minister still cowed Jean, so that she could only gaze at him without shaking when in church, and then because she wore a veil. In the manse he was for taking a glance at sideways and then going away comforted, as a respectable woman may once or twice in a day look at her brooch in the pasteboard box as a means of helping her with her work. ...
— The Little Minister • J.M. Barrie


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