† unwimplev.
Obsolete.
transitive. To remove the wimple from.
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c1430 Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 9953 She vnwimpled hir..And wipt hir face.
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur x. xxxix. 476 Thenne she vnwympeled her vysage.
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