Ancient form of female headdress.
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.
6The gorget is said to be an adaptation of the wimple.
7One of the women followed him, her eyes wide and her wimple billowing.
8She had pulled off her horned wimple and tied a kerchief round her head.
9Their leader was a nun, her wimple disclosing a Chinese cameo of a face.
10One fair maid is described as having her fair form wrapped in a warm wimple.
11The good wife of Bath wore a wimple which was "y-pinched full seemly."
12The conversation, that is, not the familiar making an armored nun's wimple on my chest.
13The wife, without answering, quietly drew the wimple aside.
14They were all nuns, in full habit and wimple, and all of them carrying guns.
15I can't remember if I actually saw a crumpled wimple in this traditional line of garments.
16Her hands parted and slipped over the large wooden rosary lying atop the broad white wimple.