Definitions
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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Thin face covering”4 letters
02“Bridal face covering”4 letters
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