WordNet
face veil
n. a piece of more-or-less transparent material that covers the face
Usage examples of "face veil".
Bryony could not bring herself to face Veil, because she knew he would deny everything.
The chief dropped her face veil to expose puckered crisscrossed scars and obscene ridges where she lacked a nose and lips.
With her fair complexion darkened and only her eyes visible over the face veil, she could pass within a few feet of me unnoticed.
She was now only a few feet away, but I still could not make out her features clearly, for she wore the long burko, or face veil, suspended from a jeweled band around her brow.