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wimpled, ppl. a.|ˈwɪmp(ə)ld|
Also 9 Sc. whumplet.
[f. wimple v. or n. + -ed.]
1. Enveloped in or wearing a wimple; hence, veiled, occas. blindfolded.
1579Hake Newes out of Powles (1872) G ij, Which all doth spring from wimpled B: and old deceitfull Bawde. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. iii. i. 181 This wimpled, whyning, purblinde waiward Boy. 1839Longfellow Hyperion iii. iii, Neither wimpled nun nor cowled monk. 1874L. Morris Gilbert Beckett xix, The wimpled maid, demurely shy.
2. Arranged or falling in folds like a wimple; hence, wrinkled; rippled.
1599T. Storer Life & D. Wolsey E 1, A wimpled scarfe bedew'd with hearers teares. 1812Cary Dante, Purg. viii. 74 Since she has changed the white and wimpled folds. 1909‘Q’ True Tilda xv, She..could read nothing of his faith in the wimpled surface [of the stream].
3. fig. Involved, intricate. Sc.
a1722Fountainhall in M. P. Brown Suppl. Dict. Decis. (1826) III. 329 This was thought an odd and wimpled interlocutor. 1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. iii. ii, The wimpled Meaning of your unco Tale. 1768Ross Helenore Introd., Sick wimpl'd wark would crack a pow like thine. 1823Galt R. Gilhaize lxvii, There was no difficulty in reading the whumplet meaning of this couthiness anent the reeking o' the chamber. |