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† ˈwrimpled, a. Obs.
Also 5 wrymplyd.
[f. MDu. or MLG. *wrimpelen (older Flem. wrempelen ‘to drawe the mouth awry’, Hexham), frequentative of MLG. wrempen, wrimpen to wrinkle, bend, turn. Cf. the earlier rimpled a.]
Wrinkled, rimpled, or puckered; creased.
c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 203, I can not armys blase, Nor to the fulle rynge hire belle, That is so wrymplyd as a mase. 1553Eden Treat. New Ind. (Arb.) 37 Neyther haue they theyr bellies wrimpeled or loose. 1577Whetstone Gascoigne B j, I holde a forme, within a wrimpled skin. 1592R. D[allington] Hypnerotomachia 28 b, A Dragon['s]..wrimpled backe. 1611Cotgr., Renfrongué,..wrimpled, crumpled, puckered. 1642H. More Song of Soul i. i. xlvii, Wafts of winds centrall That ruffle..Psyche's wrimpled veil. 1657Reeve God's Plea 23 The wrimpled skin..of that old man. 1672tr. Hurtado's Lazarillo ii. O 4, Seeing me so bleak, and wrimpled, like an old Wives belly. |