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Meanings of wimple in English
Synonyms
Examples for "headscarf"
Examples for "headscarf"
1
We need water, said Aziza, wearing a typically Kurdish dress and headscarf.
2
In 2004, all religious symbols including the headscarf were banned in schools.
3
She was wearing the headscarf and I said, 'I really don't care.
4
Fatima Nabil wore a cream-coloured headscarf as she read a news bulletin.
5
Rochelle turned on her heel, her paisley headscarf bobbing with her words.
1
Her guimpe was never sufficiently opaque, and never ascended sufficiently high.
2
So the guimpe was brought, a lace guimpe with long, lace sleeves, and a high collared neck of lace.
3
It may be worn with a white guimpe as a change from the blue silk one that goes with it.
4
One caught a glimpse of a black guimpe, and a form that was barely defined, covered with a black shroud.
5
They are clothed in black, with a guimpe, which, in accordance with the express command of Saint-Benoît, mounts to the chin.
1
It's ever so much lower than my white dress, I always used to wear guimpes with dresses like this.
Usage of wimple in English
1
The wimple covered the neck, and was worn chiefly out of doors.
2
She stopped short, drew her wimple round her face, and was gone.
3
Her long veil was more like a winding-sheet than a bride's wimple.
4
She smoothed her dark russet habit around her, fiddled with her wimple.
5
Insomuch that the close-plaited robe and the wimple were secure as a castle.
6
The gorget is said to be an adaptation of the wimple.
7
One of the women followed him, her eyes wide and her wimple billowing.
8
She had pulled off her horned wimple and tied a kerchief round her head.
9
Their leader was a nun, her wimple disclosing a Chinese cameo of a face.
10
One fair maid is described as having her fair form wrapped in a warm wimple.
11
The good wife of Bath wore a wimple which was "y-pinched full seemly."
12
The conversation, that is, not the familiar making an armored nun's wimple on my chest.
13
The wife, without answering, quietly drew the wimple aside.
14
They were all nuns, in full habit and wimple, and all of them carrying guns.
15
I can't remember if I actually saw a crumpled wimple in this traditional line of garments.
16
Her hands parted and slipped over the large wooden rosary lying atop the broad white wimple.
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