1720 J. Johnson I. sig. R4 The Lenten Veil was a Curtain, drawn between the Altar and the People, during Mass.
1882 M. H. Bloxam (ed. 11) II. 53 The parishioners were to provide..a lenten veil, a banner for rogations, bells with ropes, a bier for the dead.
2012 (Nexis) 25 Feb. 2 I described the Lenten Veil used in the Middle Ages to cover as with a shroud the chancel of the church.