veil

• n. ベール；仮面；覆い；口実
• vt.ベールをかける；隠す；ベールで覆う；カーテンで仕切る
• vi. ヴェールをかける；薄い灰色の霧に包まれる
• n. （ヴェール）人名；（仏）ヴェール；（独）フェール

ラテン語のvelum、カーテン、帆、ひいてはベールから。

veil

veil: [13] The ultimate source of veil is Latin vēlum ‘sail, curtain, veil’, and English acquired it via Anglo-Norman veile. To reveal something is etymologically to ‘remove a veil’ from it.
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veil (n.)

c. 1200, "nun's head covering," from Anglo-French and Old North French veil (12c., Modern French voile) "a head-covering," also "a sail, a curtain," from Latin vela, plural of velum "sail, curtain, covering," from PIE root *weg- (1) "to weave a web." Vela was mistaken in Vulgar Latin for a feminine singular noun. To take the veil "become a nun" is attested from early 14c.

veil (v.)

late 14c., from Old French veler, voiller (12c.), from Latin velare "to cover, veil," from velum "a cloth, covering, curtain, veil," literally "a sail" (see veil (n.)). Figurative sense of "to conceal, mask, disguise" (something immaterial) is recorded from 1530s. Related: Veiled; veiling.

1. He recognized the coast of England through a veil of mist.

霧を通してイングランドの海岸線であることを認識した。

2.She swathes her face in a veil of decorative muslin.

彼女は装飾的な薄い糸で顔を隠した。

3.It would dishonour my family if I didn 't wear the veil .

ベールをかぶっていなければ恥をかくことができます。

4.The chilling facts behind this veil of silence were slow to emerge.

沈黙の背後にある驚くべき真実が徐々に明らかになってきた。

5.He retreated behind a veil of cigarette smoke.

彼はタバコの煙の後ろに隠れている。