Wimple

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A cloth which usually covers the head and is worn around the neck and chin. It was worn by women in medieval Europe and is still worn by nuns in certain orders.

   “There are two tombs, each bearing effigies of a knight and his lady. One is 14th century, the other 15th century. The earlier knight wears chain mail and his lady has long, flowing hair. The later knight has plate armour, and his wife wears a wimple.”

2. isim A fold or pleat in cloth.
3. isim A ripple, as on the surface of water.
4. isim A curve or bend.
5. isim A flag or streamer.
6. fiil To cover with a wimple.

   “this wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy”

7. fiil To draw down; to lower, like a veil.
8. fiil To cause to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to cause to ripple or undulate.

   “The wind wimples the surface of water.”

9. fiil To flutter.

   “Stars wavered and wimpled in the black waters of the Hudson as a launch put out in silence from the foot of Twenty-seventh Street.”

10. özel isim A surname.