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An ignorant foreign body -- and, after all, everyone is a foreigner somewhere and ignorant about something -- once committed the enormity of asking his host, just back from cub-hunting, whether the hedgerows, when he went out of a morning, were not quite lovely with those dewy cobwebs which the French call Veils of the Virgin.
Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life Vernon Lee 1895
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'Veils' ... a selection of head coverings, hair coverings and face coverings by non-Muslim fashion designers for Fall 2009 ...
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The second piece is 'Voiles' translates as "Veils" or "Sails" and that is exactly how Debussy intended it to be; not easily understood.
WN.com - Articles related to Children's poetry inspires Natalie Merchant's return 2010
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'Voiles' translates as "Veils" or "Sails" and that is exactly how Debussy intended it to be; not easily understood.
WN.com - Articles related to Children's poetry inspires Natalie Merchant's return 2010
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The second piece is 'Voiles' translates as "Veils" or "Sails" and that is exactly how Debussy intended it to be; not easily understood.
WN.com - Articles related to Children's poetry inspires Natalie Merchant's return 2010
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'Veils' ... a selection of head coverings, hair coverings and face coverings by non-Muslim fashion designers for Fall 2009 ...
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: Your "Veils" series of photographs is showing at Robert Miller …
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Veils off to Wiig as wit, feeling and farce marry; a fiery Gordon-Levitt is damped by 'Hesher' .
'Bridesmaids' Catches the Bouquet Joe Morgenstern 2011
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For me it means a hallowed place in Woodstock where Bob Dylan and the Band holed up in a basement crafting dark folk tales of Long Black Veils.
Insider's guide to musical pilgrimages: Country, soul, blues, folk, world music 2011
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I turned around as I said this and saw that she had discarded the burqa and was now wearing the minimalist rags in which raqs sharqi—or, to lapse into Orientalisms, the Dance of the Seven Veils, the Hoochy-Koochy—is performed.
The Mata Hari of the Faculty Lounge Con Chapman 2011
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