† velen.
Obsolete.
A veil or covering.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > that covers or wraps
band1568
vele1580
muffler1698
pilgrim1740
muffling1821
wraparound1877
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [noun] > a covering
wrielsc825
coverc1320
hillingc1325
eyelida1382
covering1382
casea1398
coverta1400
tegumentc1440
hacklea1450
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housingc1450
deck1466
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housera1522
coverlet1551
shrouda1561
kever1570
vele1580
periwig1589
hap1593
opercle1598
integument?1611
blanketa1616
cask1646
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coverlid1654
tegment1656
shell?1677
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operculum1738
tegmen1807
society > faith > artefacts > cloths, carpets, cushions > cloth (general) > curtain or hanging cloth > [noun] > in front of tabernacle
veila1382
fore-hanging1528
vele1580
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β. 1582 Bible (Rheims) Heb. ix. 3 After the second vele, the tabernacle.1582 Bible (Rheims) Heb. x. 20 By the vele, that is, his flesh.1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. viii. sig. G8v In his fall his shield, that couered was, Did loose his vele by chaunce, and open flew.1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. xii. 77 [Acrasia] was arayd..All in a vele of silke and siluer thin.1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. i. 37 They..with sacred veles and infules afore them..mollified the soldiers minds.1580 E. Spenser in E. Spenser & G. Harvey Three Proper & Wittie Lett. 6 Wote ye why, his Moother with a Veale hath coouered his Face?
1591 E. Spenser Ruines of Rome in Complaints i Thrice hauing seene vnder the heauens veale Your toombs deuoted compasse ouer all.
1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 96 To examine matters barely, without their veales, or habiliments.
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