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noun
- The image of Jesus's face believed to have been made on the cloth with which St Veronica wiped his face as he went to be crucified; or the cloth used for this.
- 1973, Nicholas Monsarrat, The Kapillan of Malta:
- :A veil that had wiped off the sweat of Christ? Who could possibly believe that? (") The only true Veronica of this century was the veronica of the matador " the classic slow swing of the cape before the bull"s face, imitating that holy wiping, mocking it.
- A devotional image of Jesus's face.
- 1988, Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron:
- :He wiped the lady"s martini glass, having had some trouble with a kind of of lipstick, spat in it viciously, then washed it again.
- (context, bullfighting) A circular swinging movement of the cape.
- 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
- :The cougher makes a lunge. Slothrop sweeps aside, gives him a quick with his cape, sticks his foot out and trips the kid, who lies on the ground cursing
- (botany) A flower of the genus Veronica, usually having blue petals.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 871:
- :meadows full of wildflowers that seemed to Kit enormous, violets as big as your hand, yellow lilies and blue you could shelter from the rain under
Etymology: Named from w:Saint Veronica, St. Veronica.
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