veil
noun
a piece of opaque or transparent material worn over the face for concealment, for protection from the elements, or to enhance the appearance.
veil-like
-
a word derived from
veil.
Example Sentences
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Others belie their weighty payloads with a veil-like fluttering, shunning complex characters and precise details in favor of less fixable quantities like mood, movement and texture.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2018
"The idea was to create something ephemeral and veil-like," says architect Michael Gabellini, "so the windows aren’t just apertures but also offer a theatrical effect."
From Architectural Digest ● Sep. 30, 2014
Sometimes his veil-like layers of images can almost be mistaken for work by the German artist Sigmar Polke, who laid much of the groundwork for 1980s Neo-Expressionism.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2010
And day by day a fine still deepening haze descends veil-like over the landscape and wraps it in a vague melancholy which most sweetly invades the spirit.
From Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man by Marie Conway Oemler
However, he narrowly escaped blindness, and ever afterward a thin veil-like film covered the injured eye.
From Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers by J. Walker (Joseph Walker) McSpadden
