(1) In places it succumbs to over-commercialisation but this is still one of the finest medieval towns in Europe.
(2) Three hundred and forty-eight cranial remains from Bronze and Iron Age British, Romano-British, Anglo-Saxon, Eastern Coast Australian aborigines, Medieval Christian Norse, Medieval Scarborough, 17--20th century British and German cultures, were examined for the presence of osteoarthritis in the temporomandibular joints.
(3) Earlier, the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg , said the heightened security measures could remain in place on a permanent basis as he warned of the dangers posed by a "medieval, violent, revolting ideology".
(4) "It is time for parliament to consider the increasingly urgent matter of the Prince of Wales's status and to modernise this medieval situation," Berkeley said.
(5) Scott's ambitious design for the hotel and station clearly plundered the architectural treasuries of medieval Europe.
(6) The medieval church spires of rural England are to bring superfast broadband to the remotest of dwellings, with the Church of England offering their use as communication towers.
(7) Album four, The Future Is Medieval , debuted on the band's website this summer.
(8) He warned of the “medieval barbarism” of the terrorist group Islamic State, formerly known as Isil or Isis in its efforts to set up a “terrorist state”.
(9) Kids can roll their sleeves up and dig for skeletons, dress up as Romans, handle neolithic artefacts, go metal detecting, learn medieval royal etiquette, take a lesson in stone-age survival skills, and take part in period-focused workshops.
(10) Though often described as "medieval", militant groups are actually extremely modern, with a worldview built from a mixture of very contemporary religious and secular sources.
(11) We need to be really, really clear that they are basing their whole world view on a kind of medieval, violent, revolting ideology that, by the way, is a total and utter aberration and distortion of what the vast, vast, vast majority of the millions of Muslims around the world believe in.
(12) Which isn’t, perhaps, so different to the role of priests and believers in medieval Britain.
(13) At this time the dramatist begins with the reception of the medieval mystery plays, Calderon and the greek-oriental myths.
(14) Wanting to improve the view from his house, and provide some extra work for local stonemasons, Allen commissioned this almost Disneyish idea of a medieval ruin.
(15) He relates details of the recent digital intrusion – purportedly sparked by his decision to relocate a 1947 memorial to Soviet war dead from a park in Tallinn, which angered some ethnic Russians living in Estonia's medieval walled capital – when I visit him at his family farm, near Abja Parish , some 40 miles inland from the Gulf of Riga.
(16) In it, Rostow tried to find a common pattern in the history of the economic growth of different societies, from the traditional society, such as medieval Europe or ancient China, where a high proportion of the population was engaged in agriculture and trade exchanges were largely local to an age of high mass consumption, in which society generates a sustainable surplus to improve living standards.
(17) Galavant, a medieval comedy musical filmed in Bristol, features appearances from Ricky Gervais and Vinnie Jones.
(18) Given the unusual grandeur of the Buddhist temples and palaces in the settlement, Mes Aynak might once have been a theocracy like Tibet, with the monks exploiting the copper reserves as a source of power and profit, not unlike the Cistercian monks who dominated the pre-industrial economy in many parts of medieval France and England.
(19) On virtually every street corner, there's a gorgeous church designed by Christopher Wren to fill the gaps after the great fire of 1666, which destroyed the medieval city.
(20) You'll pedal through picture-perfect fishing villages, past medieval turreted towers and traverse Lahemaa, Estonia's first national park ( visitestonia.com ).
Wimple
Definition:
(n.) A covering of silk, linen, or other material, for the neck and chin, formerly worn by women as an outdoor protection, and still retained in the dress of nuns.
(n.) A flag or streamer.
(v. t.) To clothe with a wimple; to cover, as with a veil; hence, to hoodwink.
(v. t.) To draw down, as a veil; to lay in folds or plaits, as a veil.
(v. t.) To cause to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to cause to ripple or undulate; as, the wind wimples the surface of water.
(v. i.) To lie in folds; also, to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to ripple; to undulate.
Example Sentences:
(1) No question, Kardashian does dress in a way that shows her backside's shape, but I'm not really sure what else she should do, other than wear a wimple .
(2) So we get male characters covered in body paint, as we might have expected in the late Iron Age; and high-status females wearing coifs and wimples, as they would have done in the 14th and 15th centuries.
(3) "Boil the kettle," snaps Sister Julienne, wimple-deep in amniotic fluid.
(4) Poor old Saggy Nun, aka Oliver Peters, who occasionally competes in a wimple, barely got off the start line before hitting a barrier and wiping out.
(5) Between Nancy Reagan’s death and her funeral on Friday 11 March, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence reached out in their own wimpled way to share their pain, their anger and, occasionally, their sympathy.
(6) There is a glorious, back-to-the-70s daftness about Horrible Histories' parade of togas, wimples, ruffs and tights that makes it appealing – to a wide audience.
(7) There was Sister Wendy Beckett in her wimple becoming an unlikely TV star in Britain as an art critic.