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🪡 With soft folds 👩‍🦳 Wearing a wimple
wimpled

wimpled

9.9
Wearing a cloth that covers the head and neck like a nun
  • adjective
  • /ˈwɪmpəld/
  • Literature
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  • Eyes of scarlet-birettaed old men and wimpled, ancient women stared down at me, knowing, disapproving.

Examples

  • The nun was wimpled, her head and neck entirely covered by the flowing cloth.

  • The portrait showed a wimpled maiden, her delicate features framed by the soft fabric.

  • As I walked through the village, I noticed many wimpled women in traditional attire.

Synonyms

hooded
vswimpled
27 3.2

Wearing clothing with a part that covers the head

forms a continuous neck and head covering with soft cloth
cowled
vswimpled
1 9.2

With the head covered by a hood like a monk's robe

wraps head and neck closely with a smooth draped cloth
kerchiefed
vswimpled
  • Archaic
8.3

Wearing a small cloth tied around the head

covers both head and neck with a draped cloth
bonneted
vswimpled
7.1

Wearing a small hat or similar head covering

uses cloth that extends to cover both head and neck

Surface Forms

wimpled positive

Morphology

wimpled = wimple (transparent) = wimple + ed

Regular adjectival/past-participial formation from 'wimple' meaning 'wearing or covered with a wimple' is directly inferable from the base.

Etymology

Wimpled comes from the old word wimple, which meant 'a head cloth' worn to cover the head and neck. So a person described as wimpled is 'wearing' that cloth, like a nun or a medieval woman with her head and neck covered.