Definitions for veils

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veils veil

Spelling: [veyl]

IPA: /veɪl/

Veils is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 65 anagrams from letters in veils (eilsv).

Definitions for veils

noun

1. a piece of opaque or transparent material worn over the face for concealment, for protection from the elements, or to enhance the appearance.
2. a piece of material worn so as to fall over the head and shoulders on each side of the face, forming a part of the headdress of a nun.
3. the life of a nun, especially a cloistered life.
4. something that covers, separates, screens, or conceals:
5. a mask, disguise, or pretense:
6. Botany, Anatomy, Zoology. a velum.
7. Mycology. a membrane that covers the immature mushroom of many fungi and breaks apart as the mushroom expands, leaving distinctive remnants on the cap, stalk, or stalk base.
8. Scot. and North England. a caul.

Idioms

1. take the veil, to become a nun.

verb (used with object)

1. to cover or conceal with or as with a veil:
2. to hide the real nature of; mask; disguise:

verb (used without object)

1. to don or wear a veil:

Origin of veils

1175-1225; (noun) Middle English veile Anglo-French Latin vēla, neuter plural (taken in VL as feminine singular) of vēlum covering; (v.) Middle English veilen Anglo-French veiler, derivative

Examples for veils

Watching a woman in a white dress and veil realize she just married the wrong person should be reality TV gold.

Would the veil hold the handmade curls in exactly the proper place?

Her hat was in the way of very marked effusion; her veil too.

If users want to send naughty photos with a veil of privacy, opt for the pixilated shower door filter.

Her hands shook so that she failed twice in the task of refastening her veil.

The Arab women wore their colored hejabs, and the non-Muslim women dressed modestly and without a veil.

Yet she would not take back the words either, nor would she grant the veil.

No piece of cloth throughout history has sparked more controversy as the veil.

Mrs. Kouachi works at a nursery and has worn the veil since she made the pilgrimage to Mecca in 2008.

And Sidney knew how it was meant; she smiled into his eyes and drew down her veil briskly.