verb
definition
To dress in, or decorate with, a veil.
definition
To conceal as with a veil.
example
The forest fire was veiled by smoke, but I could hear it clearly.
noun
definition
The act of covering with a veil.
definition
Material for making veils.
Examples of veiling in a Sentence
Dulce glanced at her father and then at Carmen, her dark eyes barely veiling contempt.
The reforms proposed included the adoption of European time, the European calendar, and the Latin alphabet; the abolition of veiling of women - as a practice of far-reaching, injurious influence upon the race; the abolition of the annual, month-long fast of Ramazan, and of the Feasts of Bairam.
Marriage retains certain traces of the original system of capture; but Druse women enjoy much consideration, and are comparatively well educated, dignified and free in their bearing in spite of their close veiling.
This implies that the whole of Western theology has been an aberration or an exoteric veiling of the truth.'
But, owing to the various partial reflections which the illuminating cone of rays undergoes when traversing the surfaces of the lenses, a portion of the light comes again into the preparation, and into the eye of the observer, thus veiling the image.
Chapter 4 examines the iconography of veiling and the difficulties involved in decoding ancient representations of female dress.