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Word entry · 4 letters

veil

Best crossword clue

"Thin face covering"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /veɪl/Part of speech verb, nounSorted eilvStarts with VEnds with L2 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing

Word origin

From Middle English veil, veyl, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French veil (“sail, veil, shroud”) (Francien Old French voil, French voile), Latin vēlum (“cloth, covering”). Displaced Middle English scleire, scleyre, sleyre, slyre (“veil”) (compare German Schleier). Doublet of velum and voile.

Used in a sentence

  • The veil of the temple was rent in twain.
  • She, as a veil down to the slender waist, / Her unadorned golden tresses wore.
  • Above the smoky veil over the town rose Akerhus fort, with its towers standing out in sharp relief against the mirror of the fjord, beyond where the Nœs point loomed as a black shadow.

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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Thin face covering4 letters
02Bridal face covering4 letters

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