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to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil; "women in Afghanistan veil their faces" a garment that covers the head and face a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl the inner embryonic membrane of higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth) make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing; "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat" |
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