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   Wimple , n. [OE. wimpel, AS. winpel; akin to D. & G. wimpel a pennant, streamer, OHG. wimpal a veil, Icel. vimpill, Dan. & Sw. vimpel a pennant, streamer; of uncertain origin. Cf. Gimp.]
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   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 of nuns.
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   Full seemly her wympel ipinched is.
   Chaucer.
   
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   For she had laid her mournful stole aside,
   And widowlike sad wimple thrown away.
   Spenser.
   
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   Then Vivian rose,
   And from her brown-locked head the wimple throws.
   M. Arnold.
   
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   A flag or streamer.
   Weale.
   
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   Wimple, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wimpled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Wimpling .]
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   To clothe with a wimple; to cover, as with a veil; hence, to hoodwink. “She sat ywympled well.” 
   Chaucer.
   
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   This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy.
   Shak.
   
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   To draw down, as a veil; to lay in folds or plaits, as a veil.
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   To cause to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to cause to ripple or undulate; as, the wind wimples the surface of water.
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   Wimple, v. i. To lie in folds; also, to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to ripple; to undulate. “Wimpling waves.”
   Longfellow.
   
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   For with a veil, that wimpled everywhere,
   Her head and face was hid.
   Spenser.
   
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   With me through . . . meadows stray,
   Where wimpling waters make their way.
   Ramsay.
   
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