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• VEIL — VEIL, covering for the face. In the Bible there are several terms usually translated as veil. However, the exact connotation for these terms is not known, and they may refer to other garments used to cover the face as well. The term צָעִיף is… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Veil — This article is about the article of clothing, or a religious item. For other uses, see Veil (disambiguation). Standing woman holding her veil. Terracotta figurine, ca. 400–375 BC. A veil is an article of clothing, worn almost exclusively by… …   Wikipedia

• Veil, Religious — • The bride of Christ, as the vestal virgins had done, adopted the veil, which thus symbolized not so much the purity as the inviolable fidelity to Christ which was to be reverenced in her Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006 …   Catholic encyclopedia

• veil — 01. The young man lifted his new wife s wedding [veil] and kissed her. 02. We couldn t see the woman s face because it was hidden by a [veil] which only showed her eyes. 03. In parts of Sudan, the interpretation of Islamic law dictates that… …   Grammatical examples in English

• Bride kidnapping — Thought to be a bride kidnapping in progress in Central Asia, circa 1870 Bride kidnapping, also known as marriage by abduction or marriage by capture, is a practice throughout history and around the world in which a man abducts the woman he… …   Wikipedia

• veil — [[t]veɪl[/t]] n. 1) clo a piece of opaque, transparent, or mesh material worn over the face for concealment or protection or to enhance the appearance 2) clo rel a piece of material worn so as to fall over the head and shoulders on each side of… …   From formal English to slang

• Bridal Veil, Oregon — Bridal Veil is a virtual ghost town located in Multnomah County, Oregon, United States. It was established in the 1880s during a logging boom. It was established by a logging company as it harvested timber on nearby Larch Mountain. It was a… …   Wikipedia

• Bridal Veil Falls — Bridal Veil Falls, Bridalveil Falls or Bridalveil Fall is a frequently used name for waterfalls that observers fancy resemble a bride s veil:Australia*Bridal Veil Falls (Blue Mountains), Blue Mountains National Park, New South WalesCanada*Bridal… …   Wikipedia

• Religious Veil —     Religious Veil     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Religious Veil     In ancient Rome a red veil, or a veil with red stripes, distinguished newly married women from the unmarried. From the earliest times Christ was represented to the Christian… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Black Veil — Black Veil, in the Roman Catholic Church, the symbol of the most complete renunciation of the world and adoption of a nun s life. On the appointed day the nun goes through all the ritual of the marriage ceremony, after a solemn mass at which all… …   Wikipedia

• Runaway bride case — The Runaway Bride case was the case of Jennifer Carol Wilbanks (born March 1, 1973), an American who ran away from home on April 26, 2005, in an effort to avoid her wedding with John Mason, her fiancé, on April 30. Her disappearance from Duluth,… …   Wikipedia