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veil

/veɪl/ verbo C2

En español: velar

  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.

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“Why, a bride, of course--a bride all in white with a lovely misty veil.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 18 · C1
I’ve been imagining it all out--the wedding and everything--Diana dressed in snowy garments, with a veil, and looking as beautiful and regal as a queen; and me the bridesmaid, with a lovely dress too, and puffed sleeves, but with a breaking heart hid beneath my smiling face.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 123 · C1
For years I have endeavoured to break through the veil which shrouded it, and at last the time came when I seized my thread and followed it, until it led me, after a thousand cunning windings, to ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 105 · B2
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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