velamina

Every word of this marks the degradation to which those monkish times would have made the sex submit, "velamina _concessa_ insipientiam earum!" and pretty well for men of the cloth of that day's make, to speak of women's "lasciviam et luxuriam," when, perhaps, the hypocritical mandate arose from nothing but a desire in the coelibatists themselves to get a sly peep at the neatly turned feet and ankles of the women.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Various

Elbe scene and the Dance of the Sylphs at Vienna, the peasants 'song by gaslight in a shop one night when he had lost his way in Pesth, the angels' chorus in Marguerite's apotheosis at Prague (getting up in the middle of the night to write it down), the song of the students, "Jam nox stellata velamina pandit" (of which the words are also Berlioz's), at Breslau.

A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music Henry Edward Krehbiel 1888

Quod fuit etiam in caufa, vt velamina obfcuriora obten - ta hinc inde legenti, aut fcribenti, quae prouenientes a circumpofitis illuftrationes prohiberent ab Oculo, nigriores K

Optica philosophia experimentis et ratione a fundamentis constituta, Nicolai ... Nicola Zucchi 1656