WIMPLE

Wimple

A wimple is a garment worn around the neck and chin, and which usually covers the head. Its use developed among women in early medieval Europe. At many stages of medieval culture it was unseemly for a married woman to show her hair. A wimple might be elaborately starched, and creased and folded in prescribed ways, even supported on wire or wicker framing .

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wimple

Noun

  1. A cloth which usually covers the head and is worn around the neck and chin. It was worn by women in medieval Europe and is still worn by nuns in certain orders.
  2. A fold or pleat in cloth.
  3. A ripple, as on the surface of water.
  4. A curve or bend.
  5. A flag or streamer.

Verb

  1. To cover with a wimple.
  2. To draw down; to lower, like a veil.
  3. To cause to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to cause to ripple or undulate.
    The wind wimples the surface of water.
  4. To flutter.


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