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wimple
SYLLABICATION: wim·ple
PRONUNCIATION: wmpl
NOUN: 1. A cloth wound around the head, framing the face, and drawn into folds beneath the chin, worn by women in medieval times and as part of the habit of certain orders of nuns. 2a. A fold or pleat in cloth. b. A ripple, as on the surface of water. c. A curve or bend.
VERB: Inflected forms: wim·pled, wim·pling, wim·ples
TRANSITIVE VERB: 1. To cover with or dress in a wimple. 2. To cause to form folds, pleats, or ripples.
INTRANSITIVE VERB: 1. Archaic To form or lie in folds. 2. To ripple.
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English wimpel, from Old English. See weip- in Appendix I.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
