veil

[US]/veɪl/
[UK]/veɪl/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a piece of cloth worn as a covering for the face
vt. to cover with or as if with a veil

Phrases & Collocations

white bridal veil

lift the veil

veil of secrecy

wear a veil

Example Sentences

a veil of secrecy.

under the veil of charity

Please veil your face.

a thinly veiled criticism

she could sew the veil on properly in the morning.

shrouded in an eerie veil of mist.

a thinly veiled threat.

the fundamentalist campaign for the veiling of women.

Dense fog veiled the bridge.

the veiled head of a bride.

a hat with a diaphanous veil;

There was a barely veiled hostility in her tone.

they drew a veil of darkness across the proceedings.

she veiled her face.

She made a lot of thinly veiled accusations.

a veil of smoke which she fanned away with a jewelled hand.

It is kinder to draw a veil over some of his later films.

The suspect ,the veil makson Lovelle Mixon was on parole for assault with a thought ,was deadly weaponed.

She veiled her face before she went out.

The veil she was wearing obscured her features.

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