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wimple¹

  • /ˈwɪmpəl/

Rhymes with -ɪmpəl

Where it comes from

From Middle English wympel, wimpel, from Old English wimpel (“veil, an article of women's dress; a covering for the neck, a cloak, a hood”), from Proto-Germanic *wimpilaz (“wimple, scarf, veil”). Cognate with Scots wympill (“wimple”), Dutch wimpel (“streamer, pennant”), German Wimpel (“pennant”), Swedish vimpel (“pennant, banner”), Icelandic vimpill (“hood, cowl”).

noun wimples

  1. A cloth which usually covers the head and is worn around the neck and chin. It was worn by women in medieval Europe and is still worn by nuns in certain orders. [T]he people all wore hosen and shoon and smocks and jupes and jerkins and wimples.
  2. A fold or pleat in cloth.
  3. A ripple, as on the surface of water.
  4. A curve or bend.
  5. A flag or streamer.

wimple²

  • /ˈwɪmpəl/

Rhymes with -ɪmpəl

Where it comes from

From Middle English wimplen (“to cover, conceal; to fold, drape”).

verb wimples · wimpling · wimpled

  1. To cover with a wimple. this wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy
  2. To draw down; to lower, like a veil. IV A lovely Ladie[*] rode him faire beside, Upon a lowly Asse more white then snow, Yet she much whiter, but the same did hide 30 Under a vele, that wimpled was full low, And over all a blacke stole she did throw, As one that inly mournd: so was she sad, And heavie sat upon her palfrey slow; Seemed
  3. To cause to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to cause to ripple or undulate. The wind wimples the surface of water.
  4. To flutter. Stars wavered and wimpled in the black waters of the Hudson as a launch put out in silence from the foot of Twenty-seventh Street.

Wimple³

Where it comes from

From wimple, a metonymic occupational surname for a maker of wimples.

proper noun Wimples · Wimble

  1. A surname.

Translations

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noun Headdress that covers the chin and neck

Italianosoggolo
Românăvăl, broboadă

noun Curve or bend

Românăcurbură, meandră, cotitură

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@misc{wimple_2026,
  title = {wimple},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/wimple},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}