take the veil

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   become a nun

   “The young woman took the veil after her fiance died”

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Questions about take the veil

What does take the veil mean?

take the veil means "become a nun".

Is take the veil a common word?

take the 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.