Veil

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NOUN

a garment that covers the head and face

a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms

the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth)

a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church

VERB

to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil

make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing

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