Meanings
adjectiveveillike (comparative more veillike, superlative most veillike)
comparative more veillike · superlative most veillike
- Resembling or characteristic of a veil.
The moon went slowly down in chastened loveliness; she departed like some sweet bride into her chamber, and long veil-like shadows crept up the sky through which the stars peeped shyly out.
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
Origin
Translations
Hungarian fátyolszerű
- fátyolszerűresembling or characteristic of a veil
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