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Unveiling

noun

Putting on display for the first time.

The act of beginning something new. Synonyms: debut, entry, first appearance, introduction, launching.

Unveil

verb

Remove the veil from.

Make visible. Synonyms: bring out, reveal, uncover. "He brings out the best in her"

Remove the cover from.

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"Unveiling" Quotes from Famous Books

... the upheaval of the piecrust in the process of baking. When the punchers rode in that evening and entered the messroom, they sniffed knowingly. But not until the psychological moment did Sundown parade his pies. Then he stepped to the kitchen and, with the lordly gesture of a Michael Angelo unveiling a statue for the approval of Latin princes, commanded the assistant to "Bring forth them ...

— Sundown Slim • Henry Hubert Knibbs

... of investigation concerning the physical causes of insanity, and have scarcely done more than recognize the possibility of molecular disease of the brain. Hereafter science will, probably, succeed in unveiling the obscure facts of molecular brain pathology, and enable the medical psychologist to predicate disease of recognized classes of brain elements from the special phenomena of mind disturbance. This is the line ...

— Scientific American Suppl. No. 299 • Various

... and diligently into the journalistic craft. He observed with close attention all that went on about him, and listened with sharpened ears. But the moment had not yet come for the unveiling of a mission within him. He was on the way; the ...

— The Jewish State • Theodor Herzl

... fountain was their gift to the village. They had earned it faithfully and well. They were all there, drawn up in a circle about the fountain,—Ralph and Dick and Tommy and Master Sunshine, and all the other pupils of the school. Close by were gathered their relatives and friends; for the formal unveiling was felt to be a most important matter, and the whole village had turned out to ...

— Master Sunshine • Mrs. C. F. Fraser

... East Orange in connection with the celebration on August 13 of the birthday of its founder, Lucy Stone. There was a pilgrimage of suffragists from almost every county, and, after exercises at her old home and the unveiling by her daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell, of a tablet placed in front of the house, there was an automobile parade through the nearby towns, winding up with a mass meeting in the park in East Orange, where Dr. Shaw and ex-Governor John ...

— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI • Various

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