veillike
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
veillike (comparative more veillike, superlative most veillike)
- Resembling or characteristic of a veil.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- 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.