Definition of wimple in English:
wimple
noun ˈwɪmp(ə)lˈwɪmpəl
A cloth headdress covering the head, neck, and the sides of the face, formerly worn by women and still worn by some nuns.
- There's something about his knit cap with the hood covering it that looks as holy as a wimple.
- As a nun she is beatific, her head, in a wimple, tilted toward heaven, a prayer book clasped to her breast.
- Saying that, I think I'd suit a wimple and I quite like navy.
- And will traditional Catholic nuns still be allowed to wear wimples?
- Nuns in their blue-and-white wimples glide smiling to and fro, and there are dozens of foreign helpers, the seriously spiritually committed young who wash sheets and fetch water.
- When did I join the Amish community, sitting with my wimple on, shaking my head sadly at the waste and dissipation of the modern world?
- Cora refused to wear such a confining and uncomfortable article of clothing as the wimple, which wrapped around a woman's head and neck.
- It's hot and she looks a bit rosy under the wimple, but comfortable.
- In the event, I was unable to attend as my wimple was at the cleaners.
- So it would appear that my chances of seeing a bearded man walking around in leather chaps and a latex nun's wimple are doubly-remote.
- ‘My mother will give you your first wimple and veil,’ she said flatly.
- The nuns wore special garb that day in addition to their wimples, belts, beads and veils.
- If you drop in here, you honestly never know if you'll find me wearing a wimple or a bikini.
- Maria runs off to the nunnery, blowing her nose on her wimple.
- Less problematic on the cleaning front, owing to the rougher fabric and darker colour, is the monastic habit - cowled brown with a rope for the lads, black-and-white with a wimple for the ladies.
- The lord had always thought it was a shame that women, in the most blossoming point in their life, had to bind their hair and hide it under wimples and veils.
- One day, as she roams deep in the forest, ill with allergies and the flu, her sweat-shirt hood pulled tightly around her like a postmodern wimple, Ann experiences an apparition of the Virgin Mary.
- Espidreen, no longer looking feminine, had exchanged her silks for a simple brown robe and wimple that covered her hair and made her look much like Giles, whose chainmail coif covered his own head.
- In the seclusion of a monastery, a small group of Carmelite nuns tailor their own multi-layered habits - chocolate brown in colour, their wimples are pristine white, and the overlying veil is black.
- Again we had to wait ages because we were so far away, but eventually he passed within a few feet of us and I caught a brief glimpse of his smiling face through the clouds of wimples and rosaries.
Derivatives
wimpled
- His dense collages are like the inner workings of a sputtering cartoon steam engine, ejaculating random phrases and shaky, wimpled shapes.
- There's a certifiable obsession with textures evident, each surface shaded in a different pattern: the plastered walls, the wimpled counters, the rutted tabletops.
adjective
Origin
Late Old English wimpel, of Germanic origin; related to German Wimpel 'pennon, streamer'.
Rhymes
dimple, pimple, simple
Definition of wimple in US English:
wimple
nounˈwimpəlˈwɪmpəl
A cloth headdress covering the head, neck, and the sides of the face, formerly worn by women and still worn by some nuns.
- So it would appear that my chances of seeing a bearded man walking around in leather chaps and a latex nun's wimple are doubly-remote.
- Saying that, I think I'd suit a wimple and I quite like navy.
- And will traditional Catholic nuns still be allowed to wear wimples?
- Nuns in their blue-and-white wimples glide smiling to and fro, and there are dozens of foreign helpers, the seriously spiritually committed young who wash sheets and fetch water.
- One day, as she roams deep in the forest, ill with allergies and the flu, her sweat-shirt hood pulled tightly around her like a postmodern wimple, Ann experiences an apparition of the Virgin Mary.
- Again we had to wait ages because we were so far away, but eventually he passed within a few feet of us and I caught a brief glimpse of his smiling face through the clouds of wimples and rosaries.
- In the event, I was unable to attend as my wimple was at the cleaners.
- When did I join the Amish community, sitting with my wimple on, shaking my head sadly at the waste and dissipation of the modern world?
- There's something about his knit cap with the hood covering it that looks as holy as a wimple.
- In the seclusion of a monastery, a small group of Carmelite nuns tailor their own multi-layered habits - chocolate brown in colour, their wimples are pristine white, and the overlying veil is black.
- Espidreen, no longer looking feminine, had exchanged her silks for a simple brown robe and wimple that covered her hair and made her look much like Giles, whose chainmail coif covered his own head.
- The nuns wore special garb that day in addition to their wimples, belts, beads and veils.
- ‘My mother will give you your first wimple and veil,’ she said flatly.
- Less problematic on the cleaning front, owing to the rougher fabric and darker colour, is the monastic habit - cowled brown with a rope for the lads, black-and-white with a wimple for the ladies.
- The lord had always thought it was a shame that women, in the most blossoming point in their life, had to bind their hair and hide it under wimples and veils.
- If you drop in here, you honestly never know if you'll find me wearing a wimple or a bikini.
- It's hot and she looks a bit rosy under the wimple, but comfortable.
- Maria runs off to the nunnery, blowing her nose on her wimple.
- As a nun she is beatific, her head, in a wimple, tilted toward heaven, a prayer book clasped to her breast.
- Cora refused to wear such a confining and uncomfortable article of clothing as the wimple, which wrapped around a woman's head and neck.
Origin
Late Old English wimpel, of Germanic origin; related to German Wimpel ‘pennon, streamer’.