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veil

/veɪl/ verbe C2

En français : voiler

  1. To dress in, or decorate with, a veil. (transitive)
  2. To conceal as with a veil. (transitive) · The forest fire was veiled by smoke, but I could hear it clearly.

He/she/it veils · Prétérit veiled · Participe passé veiled · Forme en -ing veiling

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Dans la bibliothèque

One more practiced in the arts of great cities would have hid her blushes beneath a veil, or, at least, have cast down her thickly fringed lashes, so as to have concealed the liquid lustre of her animated eyes; but, on the contrary, the delighted girl looked around her with a smile that seemed to say: “If you are my friends, rejoice with me, for I am very happy.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 23 · C1
The painful catastrophe he had just witnessed appeared effectually to have rent away the veil which the intoxication of the evening before had raised between himself and his memory.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 32 · C1
“Suffer me, also, madame,” replied Villefort, “to add my earnest request to Mademoiselle de Saint-Méran’s, that you will kindly allow the veil of oblivion to cover and conceal the past.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 45 · C1
We all sat in silence for some minutes while those fateful eyes still strained to pierce the veil.
The Valley of Fear, p. 102 · C1

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