单词	wimple
释义	wim·ple I. \ˈwimpəl\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English wimpel, from Old English; akin to Old Saxon wimpal veil, banner, Middle Dutch wimpel veil, banner, wimple, Old English wīpian to wipe — more at wipe 1. : a cloth covering for the neck and the sides of the face that is pinned to the hair, a band, or a hat and worn especially by women in the late medieval period and by nuns 2. Scotland  a. : a crafty turn : twist  b. : curve, bend 3. Britain : ripple [wimple 1] II. verb (wimpled ; wimpled ; wimpling \-p(ə)liŋ\ ; wimples) Etymology: Middle English wimplen, from wimpel, n. transitive verb 1. : to cover with or as if with a wimple : veil, wrap 2. : to cause to ripple  < a warm south wind wimpled her fields of golden grain — Cy Warman > intransitive verb 1. : to fall or lie in folds 2. chiefly Scotland : to follow a curving course (as of a stream) : meander, twist, wind 3. : ripple  < over the little brook which wimpled along below towered an arch — J.R.Lowell >  < a third voice came wimpling and warbling — Virginia Woolf >
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