veilyadj.
/ˈveɪli/, U.S. /ˈveɪli/ Veil-like; diaphanous.
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the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > dimness or absence of brightness > [adjective]
dima1000
darkOE
troublea1327
palec1385
dullc1430
unclearc1440
unbright1534
cloudy1556
unlight1570
muddy1600
wan1601
opacous1616
filmy1642
illuminous1656
crepuscular1668
dumb1720
rayless1754
opaque1794
veilya1802
turbid1811
unlucent1819
ineffulgent1824
blear1830
unrefulgent1856
subluminous1860
subaqueous1875
shineless1882
a1802 T. Dermody Harp of Erin (1807) I. 145 Then bursts of midnight drear the veily shade.
1839 T. Miller Rural Sketches 9 I had watched..until the veily twilight was let down from heaven.
1843 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters I. 233 The..rain-cloud, with its ragged and spray-like edge, its veily transparency [etc.].
1900 Princeton Univ. Bull. Feb. 87/2 The light blue sky as a background for the moon-covered sun, with the streamers of a soft, white, veily texture reaching out to two or three times the sun's diameter.
1968 V. Nabokov King, Queen, Knave v. 95 She was wearing her beautiful moleskin coat thrown open over a veily, vapory dress.
2011 Sun Herald (Sydney) (Nexis) 12 June s15 She's even got veily things going on in her hair.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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