wimple /ˈwɪmpəl/noun 5verb 4forms 3 noun5 •A cloth which usually covers the head and is worn around the neck and chin. It was worn by women in medieval Europe and is still worn by nuns in certain orders.[T]he people all wore hosen and shoon and smocks and jupes and jerkins and wimples. — 1936 •A fold or pleat in cloth. •A ripple, as on the surface of water. •A curve or bend. •A flag or streamer. verb4 •To cover with a wimple. •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.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. — 1920 •To draw down; to lower, like a veil. formswimpled · wimpling · wimples
