Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An untwilled woolen fabric, very soft, fine, and thin, used by women for veils, and also for dresses, etc.
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Examples
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Ellen is busy making a pale blue nun's-veiling blouse for Emma Hagan.
Three Years in Tristan da Cunha Katherine Mary Barrow
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This fashion is very much objected to by doctors, who think many diseases of the eye come by this means, and advise for common use thin nun's-veiling instead of crape, which sheds its pernicious dye into the sensitive nostrils, producing catarrhal disease as well as blindness and cataract of the eye.
Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
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He called fine white satin ` white nun's-veiling, 'and he left out things.
T. Tembarom 1913
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I only saw Hamlet once, and the lady was dressed in white, with a gauzy light nun's-veiling over it.
A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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It was made of pink nun's-veiling, which she had got very cheap as a bargain at Shaw's when the summer sale was over.
Good Luck L. T. Meade 1884
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As Kitty spoke she pulled out a pink nun's-veiling, made up with innumerable ruffles and frills and laces and embroidery, a really very pretty dress for quite a gay party, but totally unsuitable for a schoolgirl of Kitty Malone's age.
Wild Kitty L. T. Meade 1884
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The nun's-veiling was already dirty and draggled-looking.
Wild Kitty L. T. Meade 1884
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Carrie was attired in the pale blue nun's-veiling.
Wild Kitty L. T. Meade 1884
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a white nun's-veiling, made with triple box-plaits, and a
Queen Hildegarde Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896
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