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wimpled

wimpled

English

Adjective

wimpled (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a wimple.
    • 1853, Various, Notes and Queries, Number 190, June 18, 1853:
      Two are figures of cross-legged knights in chain armour and surcoats: one is a female figure wimpled.
    • 1868, Sophie May, Dotty Dimple at Her Grandmother's:
      She put on a white wrapper of Susy's, and, looking like a wimpled nun, followed Polly down stairs.