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The pause where mystery dies and reputation is born, all in one yanked sheet.
means The act of formally revealing something previously hidden or covered, often a statue, product, or plan, for the first time.
from From the verb 'unveil,' built from 'un-' (to reverse) plus 'veil,' which came through Old French 'voile' from Latin 'velum,' meaning a covering, sail, or curtain — the same Latin root that gives us 'reveal' (literally 'to draw back the veil'). The 'unveiling' as a noun for a ceremonial reveal grew naturally from the literal gesture of pulling a cloth off a monument.
- root word
- Literally to remove a veil, once worn at weddings
- car ritual
- Auto shows still drape new models in fabric
- jewish custom
- A tombstone unveiling marks the end of mourning
- high stakes
- Statues sometimes reveal flaws no sketch warned of
- theater of it
- The cover matters less than the held breath before
tutankhamun's tomb unveiling — howard carter opened king tut's sealed burial chamber in egypt's valley of the kings on november 4, 1922
michelangelo's david unveiling — the marble sculpture was publicly revealed in florence's piazza della signoria on september 8, 1504
christ the redeemer statue — the 30-meter statue overlooking rio de janeiro was unveiled on october 12, 1931 atop corcovado mountain