Wimple
Origin 1
From Middle English wimpel, from Old English wimpel ("veil, an article of women's dress; a covering for the neck, a cloak, a hood"), from Proto-Germanic *wimpilaz ("wimple, scarf, veil"). Cognate with Scots wympill ("wimple"), Dutch wimpel ("streamer, pennant"), German Wimpel ("pennant"), Swedish vimpel ("pennant, banner"), Icelandic vimpill ("hood, cowl").
Origin 2
From Middle English wimplen ("to cover, conceal; to fold, drape")
Verb
- To cover with a wimple.
- Shakespearethis wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy
- To draw down; to lower, like a veil.
- 1590, w, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I Chapter , IV A lovely Ladie* rode him faire beside, Upon a lowly Asse more white then snow, Yet she much whiter, but the same did hide 30 Under a vele, that wimpled was full low, And over all a blacke stole she did throw, As one that inly mournd: so was she sad, And heavie sat upon her palfrey slow; Seemed in heart some hidden care she had, 35 And by her in a line a milke white lambe she lad.
- To cause to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to cause to ripple or undulate.The wind wimples the surface of water.
- To flutter.
- 1920, George Allan England, The Flying Legion Chapter , Stars wavered and wimpled in the black waters of the Hudson as a launch put out in silence from the foot of Twenty-seventh Street.
- 1836, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay Chapter , She wimpled about in the pale moonbeam, Like a feather that floats on a wind tossed-stream; And momently athwart her track The quarl upreared his island back, And the fluttering scallop behind would float, And patter the water about the boat; But he bailed her out with his colen-bell, And he kept her trimmed with a wary tread, While on every side like lightening fell