veillée

veillée is feminine in French.

gathering (in the evening); vigil

“L’hôtelier lui dit aussi qu’il n’y avait dans son château aucune chapelle où passer la veillée des armes, parce qu’on l’avait abattue pour en bâtir une neuve ...” — The innkeeper also told him that there was in his castle no chapel to spend the vigil of the armour at, because they had torn it down to build a new one...