face veil

NOUN
  1. a piece of more-or-less transparent material that covers the face
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How To Use face veil In A Sentence

  • Among the 'normal' Muslims interviewed were a woman in niqab (fewer than 1% of Muslim women in America wear the full face veil and accompanying robes), and Muslims in the Muslim 'hood', cities, like Dearborn, MI, and Patterson, NJ. Keith Ellison: Should we fear Islam?
  • However, the official decision appears to be a watered-down version of his tirade against the full-face veil as a custom that had nothing to do with Islam.
  • A court this week heard the first case against women for wearing the niqab – or Islamic face veil – since a ban came into force in April.
  • For Jill, in the twinkling of a star, had let fall the enveloping cloak, standing for one second like some exotic bit of statuary in her black billowing satin trousers and infinitesimal coatee over a silver-spangled frothy vest, her great eyes dancing with glee over the face veil. Desert Love
  • A small minority of Muslim women in certain parts of the world wear what is known as the abaya (black cloak) and the niqab (face veil). Kari Ansari: Telling Muslim Women What Not To Wear
  • She raised her face veil139 and, showing two black eyes fringed with jetty lashes, whose glances were soft and languishing and whose perfect beauty was ever blandishing, she accosted the Porter and said in the suavest tones and choicest language, “Take up thy crate and follow me.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • But the face veil mystifies her; "it might be part of a dancer's costume," she muses. A Mysterious Stranger in China
  • SOON after the liberation of Tripoli, the Libyan capital, this correspondent met a woman sporting a niqab, or face veil, along with a floor-length black dress and black gloves.
  • At the Aubervilliers mosque, one women Malika - who does not wear the face veil - recalls Sarkozy speaking to a conservative Muslim group a few years ago -- when he was then France's interior minister. France's Veil Ban Goes into Effect
  • France becomes the first country to enforce a ban against the niqab, or Muslim face veil Monday, when new legislation comes into force.
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