veil

Something hung up or spread out to hide or protect the face, or hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crepe, or similar diaphanous material.

The veil of the temple was rent in twain.

She, as a veil down to the slender waist, / Her unadorned golden tresses wore.

Anything that partially obscures a clear view.

Above the smoky veil over the town rose Akerhus fort, with its towers standing out in sharp relief against the mirror of the fjord, beyond where the Nœs point loomed as a black shadow.

A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.

[I will] pluck the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming Mistress Page.

Beckett complains that "in the forest of symbols" there is never quiet, and longs to break through the veil of language to silence.

A covering for a person or thing; as, a caul (especially over the head)

a nun's veil

a paten veil

The calyptra of mosses.

To dress in, or decorate with, a veil.

I'm under surface Towers veiled in silk I guess I'm not welcome In this house they built

To conceal as with a veil.

The forest fire was veiled by smoke, but I could hear it clearly.