English-Italian translations for veil

• velo
  Studentesse hanno perso la vita perchè si sono rifiutate d'indossare il velo. Schoolgirls have been murdered for refusing to wear a veil.
  Stendiamo quindi ora un velo pietoso su tutto questo e guardiamo in avanti. Let us now draw a veil over all that and look to the future.
  Un velo insidioso sta offuscando la nostra vista senza che ce ne accorgiamo. An insidious veil is clouding our vision, and we cannot even see it.

Definition of veil

• Something hung up or spread out to hide or protect the face, or hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crepe, or similar diaphanous material
• A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense
• The calyptra of mosses
• A covering for a person or thing; as, a caul (especially over the head
• velum
• An obscuration of the clearness of the tones in pronunciation
• To dress in, or decorate with, a veil

Examples

• a nuns veil
• a paten veil
• an altar veil
• The forest fire was veiled by smoke, but I could hear it clearly.

Related words

• unveil
• surveil
• surveillance
• veiling
• veiled
• unveiling
• unveiled
• unveiler
• reveille