veil

The veil of the temple was rent in twain.

Above the smoky veil over the town rose Akerhus fort, with its towers standing out in sharp relief against the mirror of the fjord, beyond where the Nœs point loomed as a black shadow.

[I will] pluck the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming Mistress Page.

a nun's veil

"I have heard most furious bigots talking through the veil." "So have I, for that matter," said Malone, "and in this very room."