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.
veillike
-
a word derived from
veil.
Example Sentences
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Alternately realistic and semiabstract, the paintings dance with color, darken or eliminate it, culminating in the all-white “Line and Curve” of 1927, whose veillike layers might be a close-up of a dress.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2017
The sun had ripped away the mists that, in the mountains, always hang damp and veillike between gray dawning and colorful day.
From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Hugh Lundsford
