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Wimple   Listen
noun
Wimple  n.  
1.
A covering of silk, linen, or other material, for the neck and chin, formerly worn by women as an outdoor protection, and still retained in the dress of nuns. "Full seemly her wympel ipinched is." "For she had laid her mournful stole aside, And widowlike sad wimple thrown away." "Then Vivian rose, And from her brown-locked head the wimple throws."
2.
A flag or streamer.






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"Wimple" Quotes from Famous Books



... little room opened once more, and a woman apparently of no very high class, and considerably advanced in years, so as to be somewhat decrepit, came in. She was dressed in a large grey cloak of common serge, with a stick in her hand, and mittens on her hands, while over her head was a large black wimple or hood, which covered a ...
— The King's Highway • G. P. R. James

... her life should be free and chainless as the winds. Never more should needle and thread tempt her to a womanish inactivity. As Hercules, whose counterpart she was, changed his club for the distaff of Omphale, so would she put off the wimple and bodice of her sex for jerkin and galligaskins. If she could not allure manhood, then would she brave it. And though she might not cross swords with her country's foes, at least she might levy tribute upon the unjustly rich, and confront ...
— A Book of Scoundrels • Charles Whibley

... on the 18th of September, 1721, at Wimple in Cambridgshire, the seat of the earl of Oxford, with whose friendship he had been honoured for some years. The death of so distinguished a person was justly esteemed an irreparable loss to the polite world, and his memory will be ever dear to those, ...
— The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Vol. IV • Theophilus Cibber

... not think her mother loves me more, Since she has laid aside her wimple white, Which she, ...
— Dante's Purgatory • Dante



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