See wimple on Wiktionary
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"sense": "Headdress that covers the chin and neck",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "broboadă"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "namitka",
"sense": "Headdress that covers the chin and neck",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "намітка"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "apostolʹnyk",
"sense": "Headdress that covers the chin and neck",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "апостольник"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "Fold or pleat",
"word": "plooi"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "skladka",
"sense": "Fold or pleat",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "складка"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "Ripple",
"word": "rimpel"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "Ripple",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "rifle"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "bryži",
"sense": "Ripple",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "брижі"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "xvylʹky",
"sense": "Ripple",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "хвильки"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "Curve or bend",
"word": "kromming"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "Curve or bend",
"word": "bocht"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "Curve or bend",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "curbură"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "Curve or bend",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "meandră"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "Curve or bend",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cotitură"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "zhyn",
"sense": "Curve or bend",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "згин"
}
],
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"wimple"
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"ref": "c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:",
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"To cover with a wimple."
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"ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, published 1921:",
"text": "IV A lovely Ladie[*] rode him faire beside, Upon a lowly Asse more white then snow, Yet she much whiter, but the same did hide 30 Under a vele, that wimpled was full low, And over all a blacke stole she did throw, As one that inly mournd: so was she sad, And heavie sat upon her palfrey slow; Seemed in heart some hidden care she had, 35 And by her in a line a milke white lambe she lad.",
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{
"text": "The wind wimples the surface of water.",
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"To cause to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to cause to ripple or undulate."
]
},
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{
"ref": "1920, George Allan England, The Flying Legion:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1836, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay:",
"text": "She wimpled about in the pale moonbeam, Like a feather that floats on a wind tossed-stream; And momently athwart her track The quarl upreared his island back, And the fluttering scallop behind would float, And patter the water about the boat; But he bailed her out with his colen-bell, And he kept her trimmed with a wary tread, While on every side like lightening fell",
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],
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"To flutter."
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