take the veil

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic)Toretireinto aconventand live as anun.1847October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym;Charlotte Brontë], chapter VII, inJane Eyre. An Autobiography.[…], volume II, London:Smith, Elder, and Co.,[…],→OCLC,page185:“[…]I shall devote myself for a time to the examination of the Roman Catholic dogmas, and to a careful study of the workings of their system: if I find it to be, as I half suspect it is, the one best calculated to ensure the doing of all things decently and in order, I shall embrace the tenets of Rome and probablytake the veil.”

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