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Definition of Face veil
1. Noun. A piece of more-or-less transparent material that covers the face.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Face Veil
Literary usage of Face veil
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Thousand and One Nights: Commonly Called in England, The Arabian Nights by Edward William Lane, Edward Stanley Poole, William Harvey (1865)
"It appears that the kind of face-veil mentioned in the ... But the more common
kind of Arab face-veil is a long strip of white muslin, or of a kind of black ..."
2. An Arabic-English Lexicon: Derived from the Best and the Most Copious by Edward William Lane (1893)
"(S, M, K.) And ,_^}Usj, [the pi. of the former, or of either,] The narrow parts
of the apertures for the eyes of a *ijj [a kind of woman's face-veil] ; (M, ..."
3. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah by Sir Richard Francis Burton (1857)
"... the zone or golden band running round the upper portion of the building,—ns
well as the Burka (face-veil)*, were of dazzling brightness. ..."
4. Diospolis Parva: The Cemeteries of Abadiyeh and Hu, 1898-9 by William Matthew Flinders Petrie, Arthur Cruttenden Mace (1901)
"The hook at the lower end of some appears as if intended to hold up a face veil.
If so it would be the prototype of the modem gold ornament for the forehead ..."
5. Man by Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1902)
"The use of a hook at the lower end clearly points to a face veil being suspended
from it, and indicates that the latter prehistoric people wore face veils, ..."
6. Tent Work in Palestine: A Record of Discovery and Adventure by Claude Riegnier Conder (1878)
"In Philistia it resembles that of Egypt—a full blue robe, sweeping the ground,
a black head-shawl, and a face-veil hanging from the eyes to the waist, ..."
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