0 to take off your hat or other head covering as a mark of respect to someone: --
When the flag is vailed on Remembrance Sunday, it is not considered as a desecration.
Crowned heads vailed before the statue of Beethoven, doing homage to the royalty of genius.
At such heights and to such men it seems as though the vail between heaven and earth becomes thinner and more easily pierced.
But the holy and pure did not lower or vail her eyes.
There were nine daughters left, three of whom took the vail and the rest formed illustrious marriages.
The vail of illusion silk net, is embroidered above the hem with twelve rows of narrow silk braid put very near together.
I will refute that idea, and will take away the vail, so that you may see.
The thin lace vail which partially covered her face did not so much conceal as heighten her beauty.
She had a vail tied close across her face; but she had no gloves, and her manner showed haste and excitement.
She had flung back her vail, and in her white and ghastly face and dilated violet eyes you could read a waiting look.
