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wimples

wimples is the plural of wimple.

Meaning of wimple

Noun

wimple (plural wimples)

  1. 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.
    • [T]he people all wore hosen and shoon and smocks and jupes and jerkins and wimples.1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 55
  2. A fold or pleat in cloth.
  3. A ripple, as on the surface of water.
  4. A curve or bend.
  5. A flag or streamer.

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Proper noun capitalized: Wimples

Wimples

  1. (plural) plural of Wimple

Questions about wimples

What is wimples the plural of?
Wimples is the plural of wimple.
What part of speech is wimples?
Wimples is a proper noun.

Words near wimples in the dictionary

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

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