See also:

• VEIL (O.Fr. veile, mod. voile, from Lat. velum, cloth, awning, sail)

VEIL (O.Fr. veile, mod. voile, from See also:

• LAT

Lat. velum, See also:

• CLOTH

cloth, awning, See also:

• SAIL

sail)  , a See also:

• CLOTH

cloth or piece of other fabric used as a means of See also:

• CON

con- ' Some have considered Isola See also:

• FARNESE
• FARNESE, ALEXANDER (1545-1592)
• FARNESE, ELIZABETH (1692-1766)

Farnese to have been the arx of See also:

• VEII

Veii, but this is unlikely.cealing something from the view, as in the veils of the Jewish See also:

• TABERNACLE
• TABERNACLE (Lat. tabernaculum, a hut, tent)

tabernacle, which hung before the See also:

• HOLY

Holy See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

Place, and before the Most Holy Place . The word is, however, chiefly used of a covering for the See also:

• FACE (from Lat. fades, derived either from facere, to make, or from a root fa-, meaning " appear "; cf. Gr. cbatvstv)

face and See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head, as worn by See also:

• WOMEN

women . The veiling of the face by women is a practice among the Mohammedan races of the See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East and among those peoples which have. come under the See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of See also:

• ISLAM

Islam . It is observed only when outside the See also:

• HAREM

harem and not by slaves or by the very poor, and rarely by the Bedouin women . The face-See also:

• VEIL (O.Fr. veile, mod. voile, from Lat. velum, cloth, awning, sail)

veil (burka') is a See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long See also:

• STRIP

strip of See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

white See also:

• MUSLIN (through Fr. mousseline from It. mussolino, diminutive of Mussolo, i.e. the town Mosul in Kurdistan)

muslin covering the whole of the face except the eyes and reaching nearly, to the feet . Among the poorer classes the burka' is made of coarse See also:

• BLACK
• BLACK, ADAM (1784-1874)
• BLACK, JEREMIAH SULLIVAN (1810–1883)
• BLACK, WILLIAM (1841-1898)

black crepe, or the tarhah, the head-veil, is See also:

• DRAWN

drawn See also:

• ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round the See also:

• LOWER

lower See also:

• PART

part of the face . There is also the See also:

• DOUBLE
• DOUBLE (from the Mid. Eng. duble, the form which gives the present pronunciation, through the Old Er. duble, from Lat. duplus, twice as much)

double veil or yashmak, serving as a head- and face-veil (see See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

INDIA, § See also:

• INDIAN

Indian See also:

• COSTUME
• COSTUME (through the Fr. costume, from Ital. costume, Late Lat. costuma, a contracted form of Lat. consuetudinem, ace. of consuetudo, custom, habit, manner, &c.)

Costume) . In See also:

• EUROPEAN

European countries the veil has played a large part in the head-See also:

• DRESS (from the Fr. dresser, to set out, arrange, formed from Lat. directus, arranged, dirigere, to direct, arrange)

dress of women . It took many shapes in the See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• MIDDLE

middle ages and could be brought over the face as a covering or See also:

• PROTECTION

protection . Later it became a See also:

• MERE
• MERE, ADALBERT (1838-1909)

mere ornamental appendage, See also:

• HANGING

hanging down from the high, peaked and elaborate head-dresses then worn . In See also:

• MODERN

modern times it has become a piece of See also:

• GAUZE

gauze, See also:

• LACE (corresponding to Ital. merletto, trina; Genoese Pizzo; Ger. spitzen; Fr. dentelle; Dutch kanten; Span. encaje; the English word owes something to the Fr. lassis or laces, but both are connected with the earlier Lat. laqueus; early French laces were

lace or See also:

• NET

net attached to the See also:

• HAT

hat or See also:

• BONNET
• BONNET, CHARLES (172o–1793)

bonnet and used as a protection against dust, See also:

• LIGHT

light or See also:

• WIND
• WIND (a common Teut. word, cognate with Skt. vats, Lat. ventus, cf. " weather," to be of course distinguished from to " wind," to coil or twist, O.Eng. windan, cf. "wander," "wend," &c.)

wind .