Meanings of guimpe in English

Her guimpe was never sufficiently opaque, and never ascended sufficiently high.

So the guimpe was brought, a lace guimpe with long, lace sleeves, and a high collared neck of lace.

It may be worn with a white guimpe as a change from the blue silk one that goes with it.

One caught a glimpse of a black guimpe, and a form that was barely defined, covered with a black shroud.

They are clothed in black, with a guimpe, which, in accordance with the express command of Saint-Benoît, mounts to the chin.

She caught up the money and the note, thrust them into her guimpe, locked the case, and ran to the road.

Hemstitchers earn $10 to $14 and a guimpe maker in one shop earned $12.

But if there was to be no guimpe....

It landed right on top of the basket of wash, and lay wet and dirty on top of a ruffled guimpe of Dot's.

She hurriedly finished weaving her heavy chestnut hair into two gleaming plaits, fastened a muslin guimpe at the back, and slipped into her dress.

Veronique was expecting him, dressed in her blue silk gown and muslin guimpe, over which fell a collaret made of lawn with a deep hem.

"Miss Rosa," asked Elinor desperately, "have you such a thing as a guimpe?"

"Couldn't I have a guimpe with it?"

"That is true," said la Montmichel; "what makes you run about the streets thus, without guimpe or ruff?"

"And, Arethusa, I can't believe that even Miss Eliza would make you wear a guimpe with an evening dress!"

Her guimpe was never sufficiently opaque, and never ascended sufficiently high.