Type of silk or linen neckwear.
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Examples for "wimple"
Examples for "wimple"
1The wimple covered the neck, and was worn chiefly out of doors.
2She stopped short, drew her wimple round her face, and was gone.
3Her long veil was more like a winding-sheet than a bride's wimple.
4She smoothed her dark russet habit around her, fiddled with her wimple.
5Insomuch that the close-plaited robe and the wimple were secure as a castle.
1The back has an ornamental design in gold cord and guimp.
2The embroidery is in coloured silks, silver cords and threads, and silver guimp.
3Metal is also found in the form of 'guimp,' in flattened spirals (Fig.
4The initials flanking the coat are worked in guimp, as are the corner roses and leaves.
5The design is filled in freely with small pearls enclosed in guimp circles and small pearls alone.
1Her guimpe was never sufficiently opaque, and never ascended sufficiently high.
2So the guimpe was brought, a lace guimpe with long, lace sleeves, and a high collared neck of lace.
3It may be worn with a white guimpe as a change from the blue silk one that goes with it.
4One caught a glimpse of a black guimpe, and a form that was barely defined, covered with a black shroud.
5They are clothed in black, with a guimpe, which, in accordance with the express command of Saint-Benoît, mounts to the chin.
6She caught up the money and the note, thrust them into her guimpe, locked the case, and ran to the road.
7Hemstitchers earn $10 to $14 and a guimpe maker in one shop earned $12.
8But if there was to be no guimpe....
9It landed right on top of the basket of wash, and lay wet and dirty on top of a ruffled guimpe of Dot's.
10She hurriedly finished weaving her heavy chestnut hair into two gleaming plaits, fastened a muslin guimpe at the back, and slipped into her dress.
11Veronique was expecting him, dressed in her blue silk gown and muslin guimpe, over which fell a collaret made of lawn with a deep hem.
12"Miss Rosa," asked Elinor desperately, "have you such a thing as a guimpe?"
13"Couldn't I have a guimpe with it?"
14"That is true," said la Montmichel; "what makes you run about the streets thus, without guimpe or ruff?"
15"And, Arethusa, I can't believe that even Miss Eliza would make you wear a guimpe with an evening dress!"
16Her guimpe was never sufficiently opaque, and never ascended sufficiently high.