Homer frequently mentions the veil as a part of the attire of the Grecian and Trojan ladies.
Of Helen, he says:—
O’er her fair face a snowy veil she threw,
And, softly sighing, from the loom withdrew.
The ancient head-dress of the Irish appears to be but little known till the twelfth century, when it is said to have been much the same as that worn by the Southern Britons.
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England, A.D. 450.