veil : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a piece of more-or-less transparent material that covers the face
  

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• noun a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl
  veil.
  

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• (R. C. Ch.), a long, narrow veil or scarf of the same material as the vestments, worn round the shoulders by the officiating priest or his attendant at Mass, and used to protect the sacred vessels from contact with the hands.

Webster 1913

• noun membrane of the young sporophore of various mushrooms extending from the margin of the cap to the stem and is ruptured by growth; represented in mature mushroom by an annulus around the stem and sometimes a cortina on the margin of the cap
  

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• verb become a nun
  
  • The young woman took the veil after her fiance died

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• (Eccl.), to receive or be covered with, a veil, as a nun, in token of retirement from the world; to become a nun.

Webster 1913

• noun membrane initially completely investing the young sporophore of various mushrooms that is ruptured by growth; represented in the mature mushroom by a volva around lower part of stem and scales on upper surface of the cap
  

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• noun an accusation that is understood without needing to be spoken
  unspoken accusation.
  

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