VEILING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does veiling mean? 

• VEILING (noun)
  The noun VEILING has 1 sense:

1. a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave

  Familiarity information: VEILING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VEILING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

gauze; netting; veiling

Hypernyms ("veiling" is a kind of...):

mesh; meshing; meshwork; net; network (an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "veiling"):

cheesecloth (a coarse loosely woven cotton gauze; originally used to wrap cheeses)

gossamer (a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture)

 Context examples 

It was about us, veiling and hiding us in its dense wet gauze.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

And yet behind this outer veiling of folly, with which they so carefully draped themselves, they were often men of strong character and robust personality.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From this window were visible the porter's lodge and the carriage-road, and just as I had dissolved so much of the silver-white foliage veiling the panes as left room to look out, I saw the gates thrown open and a carriage roll through.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)