Definition of "nun's-veiling" [nun's-veiling]

• An untwilled woolen fabric, very soft, fine, and thin, used by women for veils, and also for dresses, etc. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Ellen is busy making a pale blue nun's-veiling blouse for Emma Hagan."
• "This fashion is very much objected to by doctors, who think many diseases of the eye come by this means, and advise for common use thin nun's-veiling instead of crape, which sheds its pernicious dye into the sensitive nostrils, producing catarrhal disease as well as blindness and cataract of the eye."
• "He called fine white satin ` white nun's-veiling, 'and he left out things."