veilingn.

Brit.

/ˈveɪlɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈveɪlɪŋ/

Forms: Middle English veylinge, Middle English veylynge, Middle English weilinge, 1500s vaylynge, 1500s– veiling, 1600s ueiling, 1600s–1700s vailing, 1700s vailling; also Scottish pre-1700 valling, pre-1700 walling.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: veil v., -ing suffix¹; veil n.¹, -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: Partly < veil v. + -ing suffix¹, and partly < veil n.¹ + -ing suffix¹.

a. Something serving as a veil, cover, screen, etc.; a veil or curtain. Also figurative. N.E.D. (1916) remarks that the use in quot. 1749 is ‘prob. confused with’ valance n.¹ but cf., for example, quot. 1567 at veil n.¹ 4c in the sense ‘a curtain for a bed’.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > covers or hangings > [noun] > hangings > curtain

curtainc1320

riddelc1380

saya1382

serge1382

veilinga1398

traverse1400

veil1567

purdah1621

scene1638

drapes1908

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. ii. viii. 72 Withoute eny veylinge of figure oþir of creature isette bitwene he [sc. a seraphin] loueþ to se God.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. ii. xviii. 83 He sey God face to face wiþoute weilinge iput bitwene.

1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Velame,..vailings, shadowings or curteins.

1638 J. Ballard Hist. Susanna xii. sig. G8^v A Cambrick band she wore: A piece of whitest Lawn upon her head, With sable silken veilings overspred.

1738 H. Purefoy Let. 4 June in G. Eland Purefoy Lett. (1931) I. v. 104 You say the pattern is three yards long & our window curtains must be 3 yards & and quarter long & for the vaillings & curtains wee shall want 18 yards of y^e best sort.

1749 Philos. Trans. 1748 (Royal Soc.) 45 386 The Breach on the East Side, near a Window,..was opposite to the Vailings of the Bed, which were singed.

1844 I. Williams Baptistery II. iv. 37 Then when strongest heart is failing Death it calls into its aid, Strips aside the fleshly veiling Round ourselves that we have made.

1900 Daily News 14 Feb. 7/4 Vivid flashes of lightning illuminated the whole room, piercing the veiling of the windows.

1947 Living Church 9 Mar. 4/2 Is it correct to place violet veilings on the candlesticks during Passiontide?

2009 WWD (Nexis) 17 Sept. 6 Gowns accessorized with lace mantillas in homage to Goya, or perhaps to his beloved mother and sisters, who no doubt wore such veilings to mass.

b. Light, gauzy fabric or fine net, of a type used to make veils. Also occasionally as a count noun: a piece of such fabric.See also nun's veiling n. at nun n.¹ Compounds 3.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric for specific purpose > [noun] > for clothing > for veils or headgear

hoodingc1450

veiling1815

hatting1875

turban-cloth1877

1815 Providence (Rhode Island) Patriot 9 Sept. A great variety first quality Florence Silks, black Lace Veiling, Lace Handkerchiefs, black Lace Veils..with many other goods.

1875 Zion's Herald 19 Aug. 8/2 Marine Blue Veiling, French flowers and feathers, ribbons, laces, sashes, and a host of other toilet and fancy goods.

1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 510/1 The widths of gauze for Veiling measure from half a yard to three-quarters in width.

1894 Times 16 Apr. 4/2 The sale of veilings is fairly well sustained.

1923 E. A. Powell By Camel & Car to Peacock Throne iii. 80 The white, mushroom-shaped affair, with a length of green veiling festooned around the crown and hanging down behind, went out with the Victorian era.

1959 Sunday Times 5 Apr. 22/5 As small as it is possible to be and still be called a hat, a bandeau and bow are caught in a cage of veiling.

1999 J. Mulvaney Kennedy Weddings ii. 11/2 She wore a small hat made of pink ostrich feathers and veiling.

a. The action of veiling or covering a person or thing; an instance of this. Also: the practice or custom of putting on or wearing a veil (in later use esp. with reference to the clothing of some Muslim women).

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > [noun] > in specific way > with specific clothing > other

hosing1340

swaddlingc1522

veiling1566

hoodingc1575

vesting1648

superinvestiture1681

shawling1815

bonneting1822

cloaking1824

gloving1826

fancy dressing1848

dressing up1861

costuming1886

uniforming1891

1566 Answere for Tyme 95 She shoulde haue no notable diuersitie of apparell, lest men that passe bye should poinct at her with their fingers, wherin he semith not to allow the coustome of the Church, in veiling of virgins of a singular facion.

1582 T. Bentley et al. Monument of Matrones iv. 696 The time drawe along which thou hast appointed for the veiling of hir crowne, at the feet of thy sonne Iesus.

1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Velatio, a vailing.

1637 G. Gillespie Dispute against Eng.-Popish Ceremonies iii. 105 Why doth the Apostle, after he hath given good reasons for the veiling of Women, subjoyne, If any man seems to be contentious.

1711 J. Bingham Origines Ecclesiasticæ III. vii. iv. 96 He speaks of Veiling of Virgins on certain Holidays.

1764 Monthly Rev. Sept. 165 The veiling of the Spouse, the consummation, the solemn feast, are not related.

1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 90 Oh the lacing, the bracing, the bonneting, the veiling, the gloving!

1921 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 51 319 Women are not veiled even among the Sunni tribes..; the veiling of women is not an original Turkish usage.

1964 Furrow 15 162 It seems the veiling of the cross goes back to the days when the figure on crucifixes was..Christ crowned and triumphant.

1999 A. K. Kaler in A. K. Kaler & R. E. Johnson-Kurek Romantic Convent. 89 When the plot is set in the Middle East, polygamy, purdah, veiling, and the harem threaten the heroine's happiness and sense of privacy.

2008 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 2 Aug. (Books section) 29 The third [section] looks at the socio-political dimensions of veiling.

b. figurative and in extended use. The action or practice of obscuring, concealing, or covering something; the fact of being or becoming obscured. Also: an instance of this.

ΚΠ

1597 Deuoute Mans Purposes ix. f. 57^v Rather then to repayre their neighbors fame again, with any vayling of their owne aspired promotion, they will aduenture body & soule to the deuil.

1650 I. Penington Voyce out of Thick Darkness 25 Mans..revealing the things of God, though it may appear as a..glorious discovery of those things, yet it is but a vailing, but a clouding of them.

1721 J. Peirce Reply to Mr. Enty's Late Piece 84 The veiling of the Glory signifies nothing here.

1821 L.-M. Hawkins Heraline III. xiii. 274 There was no veiling of any of these misfortunes, from each other, between husband and wife.

1862 C. Crosland Mrs. Blake I. ix. 166 With all its errors and veilings, [the Peerage] has approximations apparent enough to the diligent searcher.

1959 E. Borneman in N. Hentoff & A. J. McCarthy Jazz 17 The direct statement is considered..unimaginative; the veiling of all contents in ever-changing paraphrases is considered the criterion of intelligence.

2014 Guardian (Nexis) 23 Oct. Those everyday euphemisms that are so familiar that we fail to recognise their veiling of the truth.

3. The action of admitting a woman to a convent as a professed nun; (also) the act of becoming a nun.

ΚΠ

1608 J. White Way to True Church 309 For what I pray you, are Nunneries now adayes, but the execrable brothel houses of Venus?.. The veiling of a Nunne is all one, as if you prostituted her openly to be a whore.

1694 J. Owen Plea Script. Ordination xi. 161 For this reason the Consecration of Churches, the Erecting of Altars, the making of Chrysm, the Reconciling of Penitents, the Vailing of Nuns, &c. were appropriated to the Bishops.

?1782 J. Hawkins Ess. Law Celibacy 93 So that the veiling of a nun was just the same as if she were devoted to public prostitution—!

1809 S. S. Wilkinson Mysterious Novice 15 A few days after their visit to the monastery of St. Austin's, the veiling of a nun, who was to become one of the Penitents, made a public day at the convent.

c1890 I. Grant Popery in First Cent. (Catholic Truth Soc.) 2 Two events..the veiling of Flavia Domitilla and the conversion of Theodora.

1925 Mod. Philol. 22 257 The archbishop immediately seized upon this opportunity to declare that the veiling of the nuns and all other episcopal power were his rights and duties.

2005 V. G. Spear Leadership in Medieval Eng. Nunneries v. 93 It is difficult to believe that the veiling of a nun automatically extinguished any existing talents or business acumen she possessed.

4. Photography. Dimness or lack of clarity obscuring a photograph, image, etc.; fogging; (also) the action or process of becoming dim or indistinct.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [noun] > indistinctness

undistinction1647

shadowinessa1672

indistinctness1704

obscure1787

muzz1843

fogginess1853

blur1860

blurredness1864

veiling1864

fuzziness1866

blear1868

nebulousness1878

incertitude1883

velation1922

blurriness1937

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > a photograph > qualities and effects > [noun] > indistinctness

veil1853

fogging1854

fog1856

halation1859

veiling1864

red fog1873

light fog1880

fuzz1889

soft focus1919

graininess1921

irradiation1924

unsharpness1961

1864 J. Towler Silver Sunbeam xxiv. 154 The reduction, too, must be stopped the very moment there is the slightest tendency to veiling.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 843 A little veiling or uncertainty of the outlines of the discs.

1940 Camera Nov. 63/1 It is not denied that some veiling of the highlights takes place.

2009 Watercolor Artist Dec. 68/1 Light may strike the camera lens and cause flare, a fogging or veiling of the image.

Compounds

C1. General attributive (in later use chiefly in sense 2a).

ΚΠ

1876 St. Louis Globe-Democrat 4 June 1/4 50, 000 yards Black Veiling Net, Plain.

1891 Times 15 Oct. 9/5 A considerable business is being done in silk veiling nets.

1907 Indianapolis Sun 16 May 5/5 In Assyria the veiling custom is very strict, especially among the tribe known as the Yezeedees.

1960 High Point (N. Carolina) Enterprise 31 July 23/5 Her small veiling hat and other accessories were all navy.

1978 Man June 218 Useful information about veiling practices in..an account of family organisation and child-rearing practices in Khalapur, a Rajput village in Uttar Pradesh.

1980 S. Hazzard Transit of Venus i. iii. 24 Dora's hair was netted in a veiling cap, like thatch under wire.

1992 Signs 17 540 The popularity of the new veiling movement among lower-middle-class working women in Cairo in the mid-1980s.

2003 M. Yeğenoğlu in R. Lewis & S. Mills Fem. Postcolonial Theory 586 The contemporary veiling movement passed through several transitional phases after the 1970s, spreading all over the Arab world and among Muslims worldwide.

2012 E. Bucar Islamic Veil 130 Veiling fashion even has the potential to help overcome Muslim stereotypes by breaking down visual barriers between Muslim and non-Muslim women.

C2.

† veiling place n. [translating Hebrew ḥuppāh chuppah n. (which is used figuratively in Psalm 19:6 with reference to the daily rising of the sun)] Obsolete rare (apparently) a place or chamber in which a wedding ceremony is held; (perhaps) spec. the area beneath the canopy or chuppah used in Jewish marriage ceremonies (see chuppah n.).The precise sense intended in quot. a1586 is unclear. However, the corresponding passage of the Psalms in the Geneva Bible (1560), which uses ‘chamber’, gives in a marginal note the alternative gloss ‘vaile’. The note continues: ‘The maner was that the bride and bridegrome shuld stand vnder a vaile together, & after come forthe with great solemnitie and reioycing of y^e assemblie’, which may suggest Sidney intended a specific reference to the chuppah.

ΚΠ

a1586 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David (1823) xix. vi [The sun comes forth] like a bridegroome From out his vailing places [1560 Geneva chamber].

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	veiling
释义	veilingn. Brit. /ˈveɪlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈveɪlɪŋ/ Forms: Middle English veylinge, Middle English veylynge, Middle English weilinge, 1500s vaylynge, 1500s– veiling, 1600s ueiling, 1600s–1700s vailing, 1700s vailling; also Scottish pre-1700 valling, pre-1700 walling. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: veil v., -ing suffix¹; veil n.¹, -ing suffix¹. Etymology: Partly < veil v. + -ing suffix¹, and partly < veil n.¹ + -ing suffix¹. 1. a. Something serving as a veil, cover, screen, etc.; a veil or curtain. Also figurative. N.E.D. (1916) remarks that the use in quot. 1749 is ‘prob. confused with’ valance n.¹ but cf., for example, quot. 1567 at veil n.¹ 4c in the sense ‘a curtain for a bed’. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > covers or hangings > [noun] > hangings > curtain curtainc1320 riddelc1380 saya1382 serge1382 veilinga1398 traverse1400 veil1567 purdah1621 scene1638 drapes1908 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. ii. viii. 72 Withoute eny veylinge of figure oþir of creature isette bitwene he [sc. a seraphin] loueþ to se God. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. ii. xviii. 83 He sey God face to face wiþoute weilinge iput bitwene. 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Velame,..vailings, shadowings or curteins. 1638 J. Ballard Hist. Susanna xii. sig. G8^v A Cambrick band she wore: A piece of whitest Lawn upon her head, With sable silken veilings overspred. 1738 H. Purefoy Let. 4 June in G. Eland Purefoy Lett. (1931) I. v. 104 You say the pattern is three yards long & our window curtains must be 3 yards & and quarter long & for the vaillings & curtains wee shall want 18 yards of y^e best sort. 1749 Philos. Trans. 1748 (Royal Soc.) 45 386 The Breach on the East Side, near a Window,..was opposite to the Vailings of the Bed, which were singed. 1844 I. Williams Baptistery II. iv. 37 Then when strongest heart is failing Death it calls into its aid, Strips aside the fleshly veiling Round ourselves that we have made. 1900 Daily News 14 Feb. 7/4 Vivid flashes of lightning illuminated the whole room, piercing the veiling of the windows. 1947 Living Church 9 Mar. 4/2 Is it correct to place violet veilings on the candlesticks during Passiontide? 2009 WWD (Nexis) 17 Sept. 6 Gowns accessorized with lace mantillas in homage to Goya, or perhaps to his beloved mother and sisters, who no doubt wore such veilings to mass. b. Light, gauzy fabric or fine net, of a type used to make veils. Also occasionally as a count noun: a piece of such fabric.See also nun's veiling n. at nun n.¹ Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric for specific purpose > [noun] > for clothing > for veils or headgear hoodingc1450 veiling1815 hatting1875 turban-cloth1877 1815 Providence (Rhode Island) Patriot 9 Sept. A great variety first quality Florence Silks, black Lace Veiling, Lace Handkerchiefs, black Lace Veils..with many other goods. 1875 Zion's Herald 19 Aug. 8/2 Marine Blue Veiling, French flowers and feathers, ribbons, laces, sashes, and a host of other toilet and fancy goods. 1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 510/1 The widths of gauze for Veiling measure from half a yard to three-quarters in width. 1894 Times 16 Apr. 4/2 The sale of veilings is fairly well sustained. 1923 E. A. Powell By Camel & Car to Peacock Throne iii. 80 The white, mushroom-shaped affair, with a length of green veiling festooned around the crown and hanging down behind, went out with the Victorian era. 1959 Sunday Times 5 Apr. 22/5 As small as it is possible to be and still be called a hat, a bandeau and bow are caught in a cage of veiling. 1999 J. Mulvaney Kennedy Weddings ii. 11/2 She wore a small hat made of pink ostrich feathers and veiling. 2. a. The action of veiling or covering a person or thing; an instance of this. Also: the practice or custom of putting on or wearing a veil (in later use esp. with reference to the clothing of some Muslim women). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > [noun] > in specific way > with specific clothing > other hosing1340 swaddlingc1522 veiling1566 hoodingc1575 vesting1648 superinvestiture1681 shawling1815 bonneting1822 cloaking1824 gloving1826 fancy dressing1848 dressing up1861 costuming1886 uniforming1891 1566 Answere for Tyme 95 She shoulde haue no notable diuersitie of apparell, lest men that passe bye should poinct at her with their fingers, wherin he semith not to allow the coustome of the Church, in veiling of virgins of a singular facion. 1582 T. Bentley et al. Monument of Matrones iv. 696 The time drawe along which thou hast appointed for the veiling of hir crowne, at the feet of thy sonne Iesus. 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Velatio, a vailing. 1637 G. Gillespie Dispute against Eng.-Popish Ceremonies iii. 105 Why doth the Apostle, after he hath given good reasons for the veiling of Women, subjoyne, If any man seems to be contentious. 1711 J. Bingham Origines Ecclesiasticæ III. vii. iv. 96 He speaks of Veiling of Virgins on certain Holidays. 1764 Monthly Rev. Sept. 165 The veiling of the Spouse, the consummation, the solemn feast, are not related. 1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 90 Oh the lacing, the bracing, the bonneting, the veiling, the gloving! 1921 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 51 319 Women are not veiled even among the Sunni tribes..; the veiling of women is not an original Turkish usage. 1964 Furrow 15 162 It seems the veiling of the cross goes back to the days when the figure on crucifixes was..Christ crowned and triumphant. 1999 A. K. Kaler in A. K. Kaler & R. E. Johnson-Kurek Romantic Convent. 89 When the plot is set in the Middle East, polygamy, purdah, veiling, and the harem threaten the heroine's happiness and sense of privacy. 2008 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 2 Aug. (Books section) 29 The third [section] looks at the socio-political dimensions of veiling. b. figurative and in extended use. The action or practice of obscuring, concealing, or covering something; the fact of being or becoming obscured. Also: an instance of this. ΚΠ 1597 Deuoute Mans Purposes ix. f. 57^v Rather then to repayre their neighbors fame again, with any vayling of their owne aspired promotion, they will aduenture body & soule to the deuil. 1650 I. Penington Voyce out of Thick Darkness 25 Mans..revealing the things of God, though it may appear as a..glorious discovery of those things, yet it is but a vailing, but a clouding of them. 1721 J. Peirce Reply to Mr. Enty's Late Piece 84 The veiling of the Glory signifies nothing here. 1821 L.-M. Hawkins Heraline III. xiii. 274 There was no veiling of any of these misfortunes, from each other, between husband and wife. 1862 C. Crosland Mrs. Blake I. ix. 166 With all its errors and veilings, [the Peerage] has approximations apparent enough to the diligent searcher. 1959 E. Borneman in N. Hentoff & A. J. McCarthy Jazz 17 The direct statement is considered..unimaginative; the veiling of all contents in ever-changing paraphrases is considered the criterion of intelligence. 2014 Guardian (Nexis) 23 Oct. Those everyday euphemisms that are so familiar that we fail to recognise their veiling of the truth. 3. The action of admitting a woman to a convent as a professed nun; (also) the act of becoming a nun. ΚΠ 1608 J. White Way to True Church 309 For what I pray you, are Nunneries now adayes, but the execrable brothel houses of Venus?.. The veiling of a Nunne is all one, as if you prostituted her openly to be a whore. 1694 J. Owen Plea Script. Ordination xi. 161 For this reason the Consecration of Churches, the Erecting of Altars, the making of Chrysm, the Reconciling of Penitents, the Vailing of Nuns, &c. were appropriated to the Bishops. ?1782 J. Hawkins Ess. Law Celibacy 93 So that the veiling of a nun was just the same as if she were devoted to public prostitution—! 1809 S. S. Wilkinson Mysterious Novice 15 A few days after their visit to the monastery of St. Austin's, the veiling of a nun, who was to become one of the Penitents, made a public day at the convent. c1890 I. Grant Popery in First Cent. (Catholic Truth Soc.) 2 Two events..the veiling of Flavia Domitilla and the conversion of Theodora. 1925 Mod. Philol. 22 257 The archbishop immediately seized upon this opportunity to declare that the veiling of the nuns and all other episcopal power were his rights and duties. 2005 V. G. Spear Leadership in Medieval Eng. Nunneries v. 93 It is difficult to believe that the veiling of a nun automatically extinguished any existing talents or business acumen she possessed. 4. Photography. Dimness or lack of clarity obscuring a photograph, image, etc.; fogging; (also) the action or process of becoming dim or indistinct. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [noun] > indistinctness undistinction1647 shadowinessa1672 indistinctness1704 obscure1787 muzz1843 fogginess1853 blur1860 blurredness1864 veiling1864 fuzziness1866 blear1868 nebulousness1878 incertitude1883 velation1922 blurriness1937 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > a photograph > qualities and effects > [noun] > indistinctness veil1853 fogging1854 fog1856 halation1859 veiling1864 red fog1873 light fog1880 fuzz1889 soft focus1919 graininess1921 irradiation1924 unsharpness1961 1864 J. Towler Silver Sunbeam xxiv. 154 The reduction, too, must be stopped the very moment there is the slightest tendency to veiling. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 843 A little veiling or uncertainty of the outlines of the discs. 1940 Camera Nov. 63/1 It is not denied that some veiling of the highlights takes place. 2009 Watercolor Artist Dec. 68/1 Light may strike the camera lens and cause flare, a fogging or veiling of the image. Compounds C1. General attributive (in later use chiefly in sense 2a). ΚΠ 1876 St. Louis Globe-Democrat 4 June 1/4 50, 000 yards Black Veiling Net, Plain. 1891 Times 15 Oct. 9/5 A considerable business is being done in silk veiling nets. 1907 Indianapolis Sun 16 May 5/5 In Assyria the veiling custom is very strict, especially among the tribe known as the Yezeedees. 1960 High Point (N. Carolina) Enterprise 31 July 23/5 Her small veiling hat and other accessories were all navy. 1978 Man June 218 Useful information about veiling practices in..an account of family organisation and child-rearing practices in Khalapur, a Rajput village in Uttar Pradesh. 1980 S. Hazzard Transit of Venus i. iii. 24 Dora's hair was netted in a veiling cap, like thatch under wire. 1992 Signs 17 540 The popularity of the new veiling movement among lower-middle-class working women in Cairo in the mid-1980s. 2003 M. Yeğenoğlu in R. Lewis & S. Mills Fem. Postcolonial Theory 586 The contemporary veiling movement passed through several transitional phases after the 1970s, spreading all over the Arab world and among Muslims worldwide. 2012 E. Bucar Islamic Veil 130 Veiling fashion even has the potential to help overcome Muslim stereotypes by breaking down visual barriers between Muslim and non-Muslim women. C2. † veiling place n. [translating Hebrew ḥuppāh chuppah n. (which is used figuratively in Psalm 19:6 with reference to the daily rising of the sun)] Obsolete rare (apparently) a place or chamber in which a wedding ceremony is held; (perhaps) spec. the area beneath the canopy or chuppah used in Jewish marriage ceremonies (see chuppah n.).The precise sense intended in quot. a1586 is unclear. However, the corresponding passage of the Psalms in the Geneva Bible (1560), which uses ‘chamber’, gives in a marginal note the alternative gloss ‘vaile’. The note continues: ‘The maner was that the bride and bridegrome shuld stand vnder a vaile together, & after come forthe with great solemnitie and reioycing of y^e assemblie’, which may suggest Sidney intended a specific reference to the chuppah. ΚΠ a1586 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David (1823) xix. vi [The sun comes forth] like a bridegroome From out his vailing places [1560 Geneva chamber]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). veilingadj. Brit. /ˈveɪlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈveɪlɪŋ/ Forms: see veil v. and -ing suffix². Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: veil v., -ing suffix². Etymology: < veil v. + -ing suffix². That veils, covers, or conceals something. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > [adjective] concealing1421 hiding1483 veiling?1591 palliative1611 shrouding1623 muffling1638 maskinga1652 screening?a1656 wimpling1747 secretive1830 secludinga1851 hideaway1876 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [adjective] > and concealing veiling?1591 shrouding1623 muffling1638 wimpling1747 ?1591 H. Barrow Brief Discouerie False Church 128 She may now put off her vailing kerchife, & looke her husband & neighbours in the face againe. 1615 E. Weston Triall Christian Truth (new ed.) iii. 14 The crowne of glorie, now beheld of vs throughe the vailing misticall shadow of faith. a1672 P. Sterry Disc. Freedom of Will (1675) 128 God is seen by the Soul, but shadowed by this shadowy and vailing Image within which he resides. 1746 W. Collins Odes 16 She, from out the veiling Cloud, Breath'd her magic Notes aloud. 1795 Observant Pedestrian I. 115 The declining sun just taking a last peep through the veiling shade of rich luxuriant purple. 1820 J. Keats Isabella in Lamia & Other Poems 72 Then 'gan she work again; nor stay'd her care, But to throw back at times her veiling hair. a1894 D. G. Rossetti New Poems (1895) 223 Not till this veiling world shall cease And harvest yield its whole increase. 1923 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 9 357 The deepest obscuration of the sun viewed through such a veiling ray would occur a day or so after a sun-spot passed the sun's central meridian. 1970 D. Francis Rat Race iii. 39 The small veiling clouds which were dotted among the big ones. 2010 RES Spring/Autumn 207/1 The..painting's sense of mystery hinges upon a veiling curtain and an attendant officiant. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1398adj.?1591
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veilingn.

Compounds

veilingadj.