Caul in a sentence as a noun

I'd pay a courtesy caul if I could.

This is called an en-caul birth and there is a lot of very old superstitions about people born en-caul, mostly that it was good luck.

Caul definitions

noun

part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines

noun

the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth)

See also: veil