Definitions
headdress of cloth; worn over the head and around the neck and ears by medieval women
Word origin
From Middle English wympel, 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”).
Used in a sentence
“Even the unprecedented detail of the Urbanist regulations is still not sufficient to enable us to envisage with accuracy the appearance of the wimple or the other items that went to make up the habit.”
“this wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy”
“The wind wimples the surface of water.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Medieval headdress”6 letters
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