veil 的 3 个定义
- a piece of opaque or transparent material worn over the face for concealment, for protection from the elements, or to enhance the appearance.
- 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.
- the life of a nun, especially a cloistered life.
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- to cover or conceal with or as with a veil: She veiled her face in black. A heavy fog veiled the shoreline.
- to hide the real nature of; mask; disguise: to veil one's intentions.
- to don or wear a veil: In certain Islamic countries women must veil.
veil 近义词
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更多veil例句
- I’ve asked for records and gotten stonewalled behind the veil of public safety.
- The boy, whose face is covered by a semi-transparent veil, carries a lamb.
- There is a veil of shame and myth regarding the use of cannabis.
- In her book, Western Representations of the Muslim Woman, Moja Kahf traces one of the first discussions of the veil in western fiction to the novel Don Quixote.
- Because one feature of contempt, it strikes me, is that there’s a little bit of a veil of secrecy over it.
- Mrs. Kouachi works at a nursery and has worn the veil since she made the pilgrimage to Mecca in 2008.
- No piece of cloth throughout history has sparked more controversy as the veil.
- The Arab women wore their colored hejabs, and the non-Muslim women dressed modestly and without a veil.
- If users want to send naughty photos with a veil of privacy, opt for the pixilated shower door filter.
- Watching a woman in a white dress and veil realize she just married the wrong person should be reality TV gold.
- Madame Ratignolle, more careful of her complexion, had twined a gauze veil about her head.
- Lady Maude sat alone in her room; the white robes upon her, the orthodox veil, meant to shade her fair face thrown back from it.
- As you neared it, however, the watery veil seemed flung over them, like the foamy tulle over a bride.
- As I receded, the watery veil would disappear, and as I approached it would again take form.
- No Jewish historian nor scientist mentioned the rending of the veil of the temple, nor the rising of the saints from the dead.