Veil

Veil

A veil is an article of clothing, worn almost exclusively by women, that is intended to cover some part of the head or face.

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Famous quotes containing the word veil:

    “[Montesquieu] lifted the veil from the venerable errors which enslaved opinion, and pointed the way to those luminous truths of which he had but a glimpse himself.”
    —James Madison (1751–1836)

    “I shall have the veil withdrawn and be allowed to gaze unblinded on the narrow limits of my own possibilities.”
    —Beatrice Potter Webb (1858–1943)

    “For even within his tent she accomplished his derision;
    She loosed one veil and another, standing unafraid;
    And he perished.”
    —John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)