different between veil vs peplum

English

Etymology

From Middle English veil, veyl, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French veil (“sail, veil, shroud”) (Francien Old French voil, French voile), Latin v?lum (“sail”). Displaced Middle English scleire, scleyre, sleyre, slyre (“veil”) (compare German Schleier). Doublet of velum and voile.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ve?l/
• Rhymes: -e?l
• Homophones: vale, vail

Noun

veil (plural veils)

1. Something hung up or spread out to hide or protect the face, or hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crepe, or similar diaphanous material.

   • The veil of the temple was rent in twain.
2. (figuratively) Anything that partially obscures a clear view.
3. A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense.
   • 2007. Zerzan, John. Silence. p. 4.

     Beckett complains that "in the forest of symbols" there is never quiet, and longs to break through the veil of language to silence.

4. A covering for a person or thing; as, a caul (especially over the head)

5. (biology) The calyptra of mosses.
6. (zoology) velum (A circular membrane round the cap of a medusa).
7. (mycology) A thin layer of tissue which is attached to or covers a mushroom.
8. (mycology) A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; a velum.
9. An obscuration of the clearness of the tones in pronunciation.
10. (figuratively, parapsychology) That which separates the living and the spirit world.

Derived terms

• dance of the seven veils
• draw a veil over
• take the veil
• veil of tears

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (b?ru)
• ? Korean: ?? (beil)

Translations

Verb

veil (third-person singular simple present veils, present participle veiling, simple past and past participle veiled)

1. (transitive) To dress in, or decorate with, a veil.
2. (transitive) To conceal as with a veil.

   The forest fire was veiled by smoke, but I could hear it clearly.

Translations

Anagrams

• Levi, Viel, evil, live, vile, vlei

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

veil

1. first-person singular present indicative of veilen
2. imperative of veilen

Adjective

veil (comparative veiler, superlative veilst)

1. venal

Inflection

Anagrams

• viel, vlei

English

Noun

peplum (plural peplums or pepla)

1. (historical) A peplos, an Ancient Greek garment formed of a tubular piece of cloth folded back upon itself halfway down so that the top of the tube is worn around the waist, and the bottom covers the legs down to the ankles; the open top is then worn over the shoulders, and draped, in folds, down to the waist. Compare the Roman palla.
2. A veil.

Quotations

• 1837: Ralph Cudworth, D. D., The True Intellectual System of the Universe (First American Edition, with references and an account of the author by Thomas Birch, M. A. F. R. S.)

  And this was Neith, or Athena, that God thus described, "I am all that was, is, and shall be, and my peplum or veil, no mortal could ever uncover." […] Peplum is properly a womanish pall or veil, embroidered all over and consecrated to Minerva.

• 1838: The North American Review, volume XLVII

  The outer garment was called the peplum, and was used more for occasions of ceremony than for ordinary convenience, as it was very long and ample, and, from the manner of putting it on, must have been inconvenient to the wearer. It was sometimes wound double round the body, […]

• 1904: G. Woolliscroft Rhead, The Treatment of Drapery in Art

  Over this they adopted the Greek peplum, under the name of palla. This garment, however, was exclusively confined to the gentler sex, and was never worn, as was the peplum among the Greeks, by men.

Noun

peplum (plural peplums or pepla)

1. (uncountable) A genre of Italian films based on historical or biblical epics.
2. (countable) An individual film in this genre.
   • 2006, Pierluigi on Cinema

     […] there were hastily produced B movies, such as the peplums, the spaghetti westerns, the detective stories, the horrors.

   • 2013, Bryan Senn, The Most Dangerous Cinema: People Hunting People on Film

     While it does offer a lighter tone than most peplums, and spotlights a hero who relies more on his wits than his biceps […]

Synonyms

• (film genre): sword-and-sandal

See also

• Wikipedia article on the palla
• peplos
• palla
• exomis
• himation
• chlamys
• chiton

Spanish

Noun

peplum m (plural peplums)

1. peplum