1) Headdress 2) Headdress of cloth 3) Headgear 4) Medieval costume
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1) Pleat
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A wimple is a garment worn around the neck and chin, and which usually covers the head. Its use developed among women in early medieval Europe. At many stages of medieval culture it was unseemly for a married woman to show her hair. A wimple might be elaborately starched, and creased and folded in prescribed ways, even supported on wire or wicker ...
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cloth covering for head and neck worn by nuns
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• (v. i.) To lie in folds; also, to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to ripple; to undulate. • (v. t.) To clothe with a wimple; to cover, as with a veil; hence, to hoodwink. • (n.) A covering of silk, linen, or other material, for the neck and chin, formerly worn by women as an outdoor protection, and still retained in the dress...
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headdress worn by women over the head and around the neck, cheeks, and chin. From the late 12th until the beginning of the 14th century, it was worn ...
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A veil folded so as to cover the head and neck and closely frame the cheeks, a fashion of the Middle Ages that remained part of a nun's dress
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Wim'ple intransitive verb To lie in folds; also, to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to ripple; to undulate. '
Wimpling waves.'
Longfellow. « For with a veil, that
wimpled everywhere, Her head and face was hid.»
Spenser. « With me through . . . meado...
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Wim'ple noun [ Middle English
wimpel , Anglo-Saxon
winpel ; akin to D. & German
wimpel a pennant, streamer, Old High German
wimpal a veil, Icelandic
vimpill , Dan. & Swedish
vimpel a pennant, streamer; of uncertain origin. Confer
Gimp .]
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Wim'ple transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Wimpled ; present participle & verbal noun Wimpling .] 1. To clothe with a wimple; to cover, as with a veil; hence, to hoodwink. 'She sat ywympled well.' Chaucer.
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A wimple is a covering of silk or linen for the neck, chin and the sides of the face, usually worn out of doors, and usually held in place by some form of head band. Wimples were formerly worn in the Middle Ages by women, and are still worn by some nuns today.
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n] - headdress of cloth
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Made from swaddling cloth, embroidered with child’s name, birthday, and a blessing; used to wrap the Torah scroll on boy’s first trip to synagogue with his father.
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noun headdress of cloth; worn over the head and around the neck and ears by medieval women
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appeared by 1190, a length of fine linen or silk draped underneath the chin, across the throat. The ends were pinned at the crown of the head. During this time period, it always accompanied a veil , and usually a circlet. (Fig 12).
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