[I will] pluck the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming
Mistress Page.
Shak.
3. (Bot.) (a) The calyptra of mosses. (b) A membrane connecting the
margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; — called also velum.
4. (Eccl.) A covering for a person or thing; as, a nun's veil; a paten
veil; an altar veil.