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Veil vs Bewimple - What's the difference?

veil | bewimple |

As verbs the difference between veil and bewimple

is that veil is to don, or garb with, a veil while bewimple is to cover with a wimple; veil.

As a noun veil

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

veil

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something hung up, or spread out, to hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphanous material, to hide or protect the face.
  • * Bible, Matthew xxvii. 51
  • The veil of the temple was rent in twain.
  • * Milton
  • She, as a veil down to the slender waist, / Her unadorned golden tresses wore.
  • A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.
  • * Shakespeare
  • [I will] pluck the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming Mistress Page.
  • * 2007 . Zerzan, John. Silence . p. 4.
  • Beckett complains that "in the forest of symbols" there is never quiet, and longs to break through the veil of language to silence.
  • The calyptra of mosses.
  • A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; -- called also velum.
  • A covering for a person or thing; as, a caul; a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil; a Moslem veil.
  • (zoology) velum (A circular membrane round the cap of medusa)
  • (mycology) A thin layer of tissue which is attached to or covers a mushroom.
  • Verb

  • To don, or garb with, a veil.
  • To conceal as with a veil.
  • The forest fire was veiled by smoke, but I could hear it clearly.

    bewimple

    English

    Verb

    (bewimpl)
  • To cover with a wimple; veil.