单词 | wimpled |
释义 | wimpledadj. 1. Enveloped in or wearing a wimple; hence, veiled, occasionally blindfolded. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing neckwear collaredc1405 barbeda1529 ruffed1548 wimpled1579 quilled-up1694 starch-ruffed1783 cravatted1801 neckclothed1825 bandanaed1831 boa'd1831 black-tied1848 mufflered1859 white-collared1860 chokered1865 comfortered1880 tied1911 1579 E. Hake Newes out of Powles Churchyarde newly Renued vii. sig. G2 Which all doth spring from wimpled B: and old deceitfull Bawde. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iii. i. 174 This wimpled whyning purblind wayward Boy. View more context for this quotation 1839 H. W. Longfellow Hyperion II. iii. iii Neither wimpled nun nor cowled monk. 1874 L. Morris Gilbert Beckett xix The wimpled maid, demurely shy. 2. Arranged or falling in folds like a wimple; hence, wrinkled; rippled. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > having specific parts > ornamented or trimmed > pleated or folded rodded1562 wimpled1599 fulled1816 draped1833 folded1833 box-pleated1863 kilted1896 swathed1896 sunray-pleated1897 knife-pleated1905 permanently pleated1938 the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > corrugation > [adjective] > wrinkled or creased rivelledlOE hirpleda1400 runkleda1400 rimpleda1425 wrimpledc1430 crimpled1440 frumpledc1440 runkle?1440 ruscledc1440 crumple1523 wrinkled?1523 creased1545 pursy1552 shrivelled1565 wrinkly1573 crumpled1577 ruffed1578 scrimpledc1590 wrizzled1590 wimpled1599 rucked1600 puckered1606 cappard1608 wrinkleful1608 plighty1615 yfrouncta1643 puggered1653 caperated1657 wreathed1657 pursed1676 crinkly1750 runkly1772 wrinkling1791 ruckya1825 puckery1830 creasy1858 seamy1874 crinkle1886 kinkled1890 bumfled1943 the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > movement of waves > [adjective] > rippling pirling1581 rippling1589 wimpling1721 riffling1754 ripply1775 braided1885 wimpled1909 1599 T. Storer Life & Death Wolsey sig. E1 A wimpled scarfe bedew'd with hearers teares. 1812 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Purgatorio 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. figurative. Involved, intricate. Scottish. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > obscurity > [adjective] > complex intricate?a1500 crabby1550 implicate1555 crabbed1561 intortive1575 implexeda1620 network1675 tortious1682 embarrassed1695 implex1712 wimpleda1722 wrapped1787 hydriform1822 torturous1841 sinuous1853 tortuous1858 involuteda1910 a1722 in Fountainhall's Decisions in M. P. Brown Suppl. Dict. Decisions Court of Session (1826) III. 329 This was thought an odd and wimpled interlocutor. 1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd iii. ii The wimpled Meaning of your unco Tale. 1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess Introd. Sick wimpl'd wark would crack a pow like thine. 1823 J. Galt Ringan Gilhaize III. vii. 55 There was no difficulty in reading the whumplet meaning of this couthiness anent the reeking o' the chamber. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1579 |
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