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.
Khalil 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
There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
Omar Khayyam
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
Lord Chesterfield
A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
Helen Rowland
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
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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