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The phrase "a concealing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an act or process of hiding or keeping something out of sight.
Example: "The magician performed a trick involving a concealing of the card, leaving the audience in awe."
Alternatives: "a hiding" or "a masking".
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A man playing an Edwardian battle-ax, for example, can usually seek refuge in a concealing gown and hat.
He was in the old fountain's basin, bent in a concealing crouch at one of the potted pines.
And in Pompeii, years before Vesuvius did the job more thoroughly, the local burghers had decided to cover up the smutty images in the "Suburban Baths" with a concealing coat of thick, clean paint.
For Lamentation, Graham wore a concealing tube of jersey fabric, but Morgan's dramatic use of light made it expressive in its own right, the pleating and stretch of the material highlighting the fierce zigzag of Graham's body.
There is not even a concealing metaphor by the time "Charlotte's Web" comes along, in 1952, seven years after "Stuart": a great short novel that begins with "Where's Papa going with that ax?" and ends, or just about, when Charlotte, the spider, describes her coming death to the disbelieving young pig Wilbur, whom she has saved from that axe.
Whether or not that was deliberate, it's also notable that this is, in effect, the second time the author has used a concealing identity intended to disguise gender: her "JK" was famously calculated to hoodwink boy readers thought to be drawn to authors with male first names.
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A concealed weapon?
A concealed old pot bust?
"And I have a concealed carry permit.
A permit to carry a concealed gun.
Jonathan was also wearing a concealed weapon.
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