Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Velamen

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

VELA'MEN. A general term for any loose covering or clothing, which, as it were, veils the person. Virg. Ov. Tac. &c.