wimple

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She also looks eerily like Kim Possible in a nun's wimple, which is almost certainly someone's secret fantasy.

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  1. noun A cloth wound around the head, framing the face, and drawn into folds beneath the chin, worn by women in medieval times and as part of the habit of certain orders of nuns.
  2. noun A fold or pleat in cloth.
  3. noun A ripple, as on the surface of water.
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  • Ripping off the impeding veil and wimple, Richard picked up another lance and tossed it to Basil. —  The Many-Coloured Land -- Julian May
  • She wore a black silk robe and a habara, or head covering, of the same fabric; but modish strap sandals showed under the ankle-length robe and her white chiffon veil had been lowered so that it framed her face like the wimple of a medieval nun. —  52316_ApeWhoGuardsTheBalance
  • The maid, her face as pale as her wimple, returned with the familiar rosewood box set with cabochons of moonstone and amber. —  Magazine - Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine - 2007-02 - February
  • When he had left Sandra sat toying with the lower edge of the peplum pinned atop her wimple, twisting the sheer fabric around a finger where it fell over her shoulder. —  Map.html
  • She also looks eerily like Kim Possible in a nun's wimple, which is almost certainly someone's secret fantasy. —  COMIXTALK
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  1. Middle English wimpel, from Old English; see weip- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English wimpel, wympel, wymple, wimpil, wimpul, from Anglo-Saxon *wimpel, found twice in glosses, in the spelling winpel, wimple, covering for the neck, = Dutch wimpel, streamer, pendant, = Middle Low German wimpel, wumpel = Old High German wimpal, a head-cloth, veil, Middle High German G. wimpel. headcloth, banner, pennon (later Old French guimple, French guimpe, nun's veil, later English gimp: see gimp), = Icelandic vimpill = Swedish Danish vimpel, pennon, pen dant, streamer.
  2. from Middle English wimplen; from wimple, n.
 

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