veronica
English
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edit- (UK) IPA(key): /vəˈɹɒnɪkə/
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Noun
editveronica (plural veronicas)
- (Roman Catholicism) 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.
- 1988, Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron:
- He wiped the lady’s martini glass, having had some trouble with a kind of veronica of lipstick, spat in it viciously, then washed it again.
- (bullfighting) A circular swinging movement of the cape, used to avoid the bull.
- 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
- The cougher makes a lunge. Slothrop sweeps aside, gives him a quick veronica with his cape, sticks his foot out and trips the kid, who lies on the ground cursing
- 1989, Martin Amis, London Fields, Vintage, published 2003, page 357:
- He stepped aside as a fight got going between an attendant and some kid by the Alkool display, hopping backwards in a practised veronica when a bottle broke, fearful for his flares.
- (botany) A flower of the genus Veronica, usually having blue petals.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 871:
- meadows full of wildflowers that seemed to Kit enormous, violets as big as your hand, yellow lilies and blue veronica you could shelter from the rain under
- 1978, Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea, Vintage, published 1999, page 11:
- There are also (placed there by man or nature?) quite a lot of skinny fuchsias and dense veronicas, all in flower, and some kind of rather attractive grey-leaved sage.
Translations
edit(Roman Catholicism) image of Jesus's face on a cloth; the cloth itself
(botany) flower of the genus Veronica
Verb
editveronica (third-person singular simple present veronicas, present participle veronicaing, simple past and past participle veronicaed)
- To draw a muleta over and away from a bull's face in bullfighting.
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editItalian
editEtymology
editFrom the proper name Veronica.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editveronica f (plural veroniche)
- (Roman Catholicism) veronica (cloth)
- (bullfighting) veronica (movement of the cape)
- (botany) veronica (flower)
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editManx
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English veronica.
Noun
editveronica f (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])
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