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veil

noun
  1. a garment that covers the head and face
    head covering
  2. a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church
    humeral veil
  3. the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth)
    caulembryonic membrane
  4. a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms
verb
  1. make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
    hide
  2. to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil
    “women in Afghanistan veil their faces”