(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.