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Veˈronica2
[The name of St. Veronica: see also vernicle.]
1. = vernicle 1 and 2.
In quot. 1812 stressed Veroˈnica.
a1700Evelyn Diary 15 Jan. 1645, The Zitelle..walked in procession to St. Peter's, where the Veronica was shew'd. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v., Veronica's are Imitations of that celebrated Original one, preserv'd with great Veneration at St. Peter's in Rome. 1788Gibbon Decl. & Fall. xlix. V. 94 The veronica of Rome, or Spain, or Jerusalem, which Christ in his agony and bloody sweat applied to his face. 1812Cary Dante, Parad. xxxi. 95 Like a wight, Who haply from Croatia wends to see Our Veronica. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. ix. viii. IV. 214 The Pope..showed him the Veronica, and allowed him to touch the holy face of the Lord.
transf.1788Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) I. 24 It is disputed whether the Veronica of Montreuil, or the granite obelisk mentioned by Gori, be Abraxases.
2. (With lower-case initial.) [Sp.: see quot. 1957.] In Bullfighting, a movement typical of the first tercio in which the matador swings the cape in a slow circle round himself in order to persuade the charging bull to follow the movement of the cape. Also fig.
1926E. Hemingway Sun also Rises xviii. 217 The bull wanted it again, and Romero's cape filled again... He made four veronicas like that, and finished with a half veronica that turned his back on the bull. 1936R. Campbell Mithraic Emblems 18 Enemy of my inward night..whose arm against the Bull designs The red veronicas of light. 1957A. MacNab Bulls of Iberia vi. 57 In two-handed passes, the cape is held on either side of the collar. The fundamental pass is the verónica... The name verónica is derived from the attitude of the man holding the cape out in his two hands, which resembles that in which St. Veronica is depicted holding out the towel to Our Lord on the way to Calvary. 1976Listener 29 Apr. 541/1 The oldest of old-time waltzes, the couples dancing a mile apart, the women—executing neat veronicas with the men in swallow-tails—got up like Christmas paper bells. |