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Take the veil

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  1. 1
    To retire into a convent and live as a nun. idiomatic

    "“[…] 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 probably take the veil.”"

  2. 2
    become a nun wordnet

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