Results for Vail
Definitions of Vail:
part of speech: verb transitive
part of speech: noun
Money given to servants by employers, visitors, or others, as a perquisite or present; customary or stipulated perquisites to servants, as grease and broken meat to a cook, and left- off clothes to a personal servant.
part of speech: noun, transitive verb
part of speech: verb intransitive
To yield.
Usage examples for Vail:
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Answer me, Jane Vail
"Jane Journeys On", Ruth Comfort Mitchell -
You had begun to pull the vail from my eyes; but nothing tears the whole mask off, like the hand of death, like impending judgment.
"Coelebs In Search of a Wife", Hannah More -
Her figure was very slight and diminutive, and at the parties at her own house she always was dressed entirely in white- in some rich white silk, with a white bonnet covered with a rich blonde or lace vail on her head; she looked like a little old witch bride.
"Records of a Girlhood", Frances Ann Kemble