veil
面纱,遮盖物,幔子,纱幔
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Definitions
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- : a piece of opaque or transparent material worn over the face for concealment, for protection from the elements, or to enhance the appearance.
- : a piece of material worn so as to fall over the head and shoulders on each side of the face, forming a part of the headdress of a nun.
- : the life of a nun, especially a cloistered life.
- : something that covers, separates, screens, or conceals: a veil of smoke; the veil of death.
- : a mask, disguise, or pretense: to find fault under a veil of humor.
- : Botany, Anatomy, Zoology. a velum.
- : Mycology. a membrane that covers the immature mushroom of many fungi and breaks apart as the mushroom expands, leaving distinctive remnants on the cap, stalk, or stalk base.
- : Scot. and North England. a caul.
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- : to cover or conceal with or as with a veil: She veiled her face in black. A heavy fog veiled the shoreline.
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Examples
I’ve asked for records and gotten stonewalled behind the veil of public safety.
The boy, whose face is covered by a semi-transparent veil, carries a lamb.
There is a veil of shame and myth regarding the use of cannabis.
In her book, Western Representations of the Muslim Woman, Moja Kahf traces one of the first discussions of the veil in western fiction to the novel Don Quixote.
Because one feature of contempt, it strikes me, is that there’s a little bit of a veil of secrecy over it.
Mrs. Kouachi works at a nursery and has worn the veil since she made the pilgrimage to Mecca in 2008.
No piece of cloth throughout history has sparked more controversy as the veil.
The Arab women wore their colored hejabs, and the non-Muslim women dressed modestly and without a veil.
If users want to send naughty photos with a veil of privacy, opt for the pixilated shower door filter.
Watching a woman in a white dress and veil realize she just married the wrong person should be reality TV gold.
Madame Ratignolle, more careful of her complexion, had twined a gauze veil about her head.
Lady Maude sat alone in her room; the white robes upon her, the orthodox , meant to shade her fair face thrown back from it.