Veil (disambiguation)

Veil or similar may mean:

• Veil, an article of clothing
• Veil, a curtain or cloth hanging used in architecture, especially in a temple to separate a public space from a space reserved for the priesthood, or within a mosque to separate worshipers by gender.

Veil or similar may also mean:

In biology

• Veil (mycology), in mycology is a part of some fungi
• Veil, a name given to the caul, a membrane sometimes found on the face of a newborn child
• A yeast film similar to flor, developing at the surface of wine in a barrel

Family name

• de (born 1946), German wrestler
• de (born 1966), German legal scholar
• Simone Veil (born 1927), French lawyer and politician
• de (1879 - 1965), German architect

Popular culture

In fiction

• Veil (comics), a mutant in the Marvel Comics universe.
• Veil, a 5 issue mini series by Dark Horse Comics
• Veil, a character in the Battle Arena Toshinden fighting game series
• The Veil, a 1958 American horror/suspense anthology television series
• Veil, a subordinate gateway realm that connects reality with the Black Sun dimension in the 2009 video game Wolfenstein

In music

• Veil (album), a 1993 album by Band of Susans
• The Veils, UK-based rock band
• Veil, a Korean music group

In other uses

• Veil (cosmetics), used to fixate the makeup and give a finish
• VEIL, an acronym for Video Encoded Invisible Light, a technology for encoding low-bandwidth digital data bitstream in video signal for communication, also used as a Digital Rights Management tool

See also

• Vejle, a town in Denmark