veil
noun
[ veɪl ]
• a piece of fine material worn by women to protect or conceal the face.
• "a white bridal veil"
• a thing that serves to cover, conceal, or disguise.
• "a veil of mist and snow lay over the landscape"
Similar:
covering,
cover,
screen,
shield,
curtain,
layer,
film,
mantle,
cloak,
mask,
blanket,
shroud,
canopy,
cloud,
blur,
haze,
mist,
pall,
• a membrane which is attached to the immature fruiting body of some toadstools and ruptures in the course of development, either ( universal veil ) enclosing the whole fruiting body or ( partial veil ) joining the edges of the cap to the stalk.
veil
verb
• cover with a veil.
• "she veiled her face"
Similar:
envelop,
surround,
swathe,
enfold,
cover,
cover up,
conceal,
hide,
secrete,
camouflage,
disguise,
mask,
screen,
shield,
cloak,
blanket,
shroud,
enwrap,
canopy,
overlay,
obscure,
shade,
shadow,
eclipse,
cloud,
blot out,
block out,
blank out,
obliterate,
overshadow,
enshroud,
mantle,
bedim,
benight,
becloud,
befog,
obnubilate,
• cover, conceal, or disguise.
• "cold mists veiled the mountain peaks"
Similar:
covert,
surreptitious,
hidden,
concealed,
disguised,
camouflaged,
masked,
suppressed,
underlying,
unrevealed,
implied,
indirect,
hinted at,
ill-defined,
indistinct,
vague,
obscure,
unclear,
Origin:
Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French veil(e ), from Latin vela, plural of velum (see velum).
beyond the veil
• in a mysterious or hidden place or state, especially the unknown state of life after death.
• "Billy realized that his father had passed irrevocably beyond the veil"
