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Harriet threw off her wimple, Reginald attempted to dance, with the jerky motion of a shot crow plummeting to the ground.
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The building had curved, roughly plastered concrete walls and a swelling roof that resembled a nun's wimple.
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The hijab worn by traditional Muslim women might have people talking, but it's the wimple that really turns heads.
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Her horned wimple is decorated with fine lace.
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His assistant, a silent young woman whose face was swaddled in a double scarf, like a nun with a wimple, took notes.
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The side aisles, by contrast, were barely wide enough to admit a broad-shouldered monk and topped with angular, wimple-shaped arches.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Give your heroine a shift, a wimple or a whalebone corset and you automatically upgrade from chick-lit to historical romance.
From the guardian.co.uk
There's something piquant about the look of Whoopi in a wimple, but the star must soar or sink with the vehicle, and this one is a bathysphere.
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In those orders that retain one, the starched white covering about the face neck and shoulders is known as a wimple and is a separate garment.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Headdress of cloth; worn over the head and around the neck and ears by medieval women
- The wimple is a garment of medieval Europe worn by women around the head.
- 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; A fold or pleat in cloth; A ripple, as on the surface of water; A curve or bend; to cover with a wimple; to draw down; to lower; to ...
- A head covering. Frequently a rectangle of fabric placed over the head and wrapped around the throat and shoulders. Or it could be left open to expose the throat.
- Women's head and neck covering, 12-15th centuries
- Isa 3:22, (R.V., "shawls"), a wrap or veil. The same Hebrew word is rendered "vail" (R.V., "mantle") in Rut 3:15.
- From late 12th century - fabric draped over the front of the neck & under the chin, worn with a veil over the head (4)
