humeral veil

1. 1.

   a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl

   Synonymsveil

   Broadervestment

Questions about humeral veil

What does humeral veil mean?

humeral veil means "a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl".

What is another word for humeral veil?

Close synonyms include veil. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is humeral veil a common word?

humeral veil is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.