See veli in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"3": "veil"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from English veil",
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}
],
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{
"form": "veli class IX",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
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"tags": [
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]
}
],
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},
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}
],
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],
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},
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