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noun

Wimple n.

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."

A flag or streamer.

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Etymology of 'Wimple'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Wimple" Quotes from Famous Books

... princesses, she clothed herself on important occasions in sumptuous garments. But in every-day life she was very simple, despising the vulgar plan of impressing the crowd by magnificence and splendour. In a portrait executed about this period, her dark-coloured dress is surmounted by a wimple with a double collar and her head covered with a cap in the Bearnese style. This portrait (1) tends, like those of a later date, to the belief that Margaret's beauty, so celebrated by the poets of her time, consisted mainly in the nobility ...

— The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. I. (of V.) • Margaret, Queen Of Navarre

... first walk'd the Princess in purple and pall, But the blood-besmear'd night-robe she wore over all; And eke, in the hall, where they all sat at dine, When she knelt to her father and proffer'd the wine, Over all her rich robes and state jewels she wore That wimple unseemly ...

— The Talisman • Sir Walter Scott

Words linked to "Wimple" : headgear, headdress