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/veɪl/ · noun
Something hung up or spread out to hide or protect the face, or hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crepe, or similar diaphanous material..
The veil of the temple was rent in twain.
She, as a veil down to the slender waist, / Her unadorned golden tresses wore.
Above the smoky veil over the town rose Akerhus fort, with its towers standing out in sharp relief against the mirror of the fjord, beyond where the Nœs point loomed as a black shadow.
[I will] pluck the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming Mistress Page.
Beckett complains that "in the forest of symbols" there is never quiet, and longs to break through the veil of language to silence.
a nun's veil
a paten veil
an altar veil
Use veil when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Veil means Something hung up or spread out to hide or protect the face, or hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crepe, or similar diaphanous material..
Common synonyms include caul, humeral veil, head covering, embryonic membrane.
Possible antonyms include unveil.
The veil of the temple was rent in twain.
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