"take the veil" meaning in English

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          "text": "“[…] 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.”",
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        "To retire into a convent and live as a nun."
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        "(idiomatic) To retire into a convent and live as a nun."
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          "word": "mennä nunnaluostariin"
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          "word": "ryhtyä nunnaksi"
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          "word": "prendre le voile"
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      "word": "mennä nunnaluostariin"
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