Definition of "wimple" []

• A cloth wound around the head, framing the face, and drawn into folds beneath the chin, worn by women in medieval times and as part of the habit of certain orders of nuns. (noun)
• A fold or pleat in cloth. (noun)
• A ripple, as on the surface of water. (noun)
• A curve or bend. (noun)
• To cover with or dress in a wimple. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "1615 CROOKE Body of Man 123 A certaine smooth and slippery veyle or wimple is substrated."
• "Their gowns or tunics are so immensely long, that the fair dames are obliged to hold them up, to enable them to move; whilst a sweeping train trails after them; and over the head and round the neck is a variety of, or substitute for, the wimple, which is termed a _gorget_."
• "Steevens in his note states that "the wimple was a hood or veil, which fell over the face.""