Definition of Veil

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Definition of Veil

Veil

Something hung up, or spread out, to intercept the view, and hide an object; a cover; a curtain; esp., a screen, usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphnous material, to hide or protect the face.

A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.

The calyptra of mosses.

A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; -- called also velum.

A covering for a person or thing; as, a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil.

Same as Velum, 3.

To throw a veil over; to cover with a veil.

Fig.: To invest; to cover; to hide; to conceal.

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Veil Quotations

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
Kahlil Gibran

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
Edgar Allan Poe

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
Victor Hugo

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Victor Hugo

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
Alfred Nobel

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
Helen Rowland

Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
Lord Chesterfield

Veil Translations

veil in Dutch is omsluieren, sluieren
veil in French is voiler
veil in Italian is veletta
veil in Spanish is velo

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