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Nuns Veil Crossword Clue

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noun

• headdress of cloth; worn over the head and around the neck and ears by medieval women

40%4 A clothing item often worn by nuns
noun

• a garment that covers the head and face

• a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms

• the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth)

• a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl

verb

• to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil

• make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing

34%8Veil-like covering worn by some Nuns
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