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Guimpe

noun
1.
A piece of starched cloth covering the shoulders of a nun's habit.
2.
A short blouse with sleeves that is worn under a jumper or pinafore dress.





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"Guimpe" Quotes from Famous Books



... heard the habit of the Order called ugly. But upon the stately person of the Mother Superior the garb was regal. The sweeping black folds were as imposing as imperial purple, and the starched guimpe framed a beauty that was grave, stern, almost severe until she smiled, and then you caught your breath, because you had seen what great poets write of, and great painters try to render, and only great musicians by their impalpable, mysterious ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves


Words linked to "Guimpe" :   piece of material, piece of cloth, blouse, nun's habit


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