Definition of "veils" []

• Plural form of veil. (noun)

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• "Bertram was sufficiently weary of living in a country in which the women go about with their faces hidden by long dirty stripes of calico, which they call veils, and in which that little which is seen of the ladies by no means creates a wish to see more."
• "Personally, I prefer to cloak my autobiographical statements in veils of fiction, in pretty words."
• "If the ad company, or the gym, wanted to be original, cutting edge, and pushing the so-called envelope, they would have a bunch of middle eastern women in veils painting a naked Imam."