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rimple

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Definitions

  1. Rimple is a wrinkle or small fold.

Word origin

From Middle English rimpel, rympyl, from Old English *hrimpele, hrympelle (“wrinkle, rimple”), from Proto-Germanic *hrumpiljǭ, related to Old English ġehrimpan (“to wrinkle, rimple”), from Proto-Germanic *hrimpaną (“to bend, curve, make waves, wrinkle”).

Used in a sentence

  • The evening was fine, and the air so still, that it scarcely waved the light leaves of the trees around, or rimpled the broad expanse of the waters below.
  • He smiled vaguely upon his hostess, and she smiled back at him, her face rimpling into a thousand furrows […]

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