veil
noun
- 1
a garment that covers the head and face
- 2
a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl
- 3
the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth)
- 4
a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms
verb
- 1
make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
a hidden message
a veiled threat
- 2
to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil
women in Afghanistan veil their faces
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