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wimpleless

wimpleless adjective: without a wimple.

Adjective

wimpleless (not comparable)

  1. Without a wimple.
    • wimpel-leas, wimpleless, without wimple.[1871, Hiram Corson, Hand-Book of Anglo-Saxon and Early English, New York, N.Y.: Holt & Williams, page 477, column 1
    • ‘[…] If ye would be wimpleless, have warm capes—and, over them, black veils’.1944, Francis D[arwin] S[wift] Darwin, transl., The English Mediaeval Recluse, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 36

Examples of wimpleless in a sentence

  • If ye must be wimpleless, be provided with warm capes, and black veils over them.1948, Roger Sherman Loomis, Rudolph Willard, transl., Medieval English Verse and Prose in Modernized Versions, New York, N.Y....
  • There was a sharp rap on my door, and I turned to see a wimpleless Sister Bede bustling into my room.2009, Cathy Marie Buchanan, The Day the Falls Stood Still, New York, N.Y.: Voice, Hyperion, →ISBN, page 59:
  • To his surprise Joe felt a surge of affection, an urge to reach out, to embrace the lovely, wimpleless nun. […] Her wimpleless blond hair had grown below her ear lobes.2010, Mike Johnson, Shadows of War, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, pages 276 and 353:
  • The woman in the photo was young, wimpleless, with short blonde hair and a solemn yet pretty face.2010, Anne Marsella, The Baby of Belleville, London: Portobello Books, →ISBN, page 252:

Origin of wimpleless

From wimple + -less. Compare Middle English wimpelles, winpelleas.

Questions about wimpleless

What does wimpleless mean?
Wimpleless means without a wimple.
How do you use wimpleless in a sentence?
If ye must be wimpleless, be provided with warm capes, and black veils over them.
What part of speech is wimpleless?
Wimpleless is an adjective.

Words near wimpleless in the dictionary

  1. wimpish
  2. wimpishly
  3. wimpishness
  4. wimple
  5. wimpled
  6. wimpleless
  7. wimplelike
  8. wimples
  9. wimplike
  10. wimpling
  11. wimplings

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