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Nun's headcloth
Answer for the clue "Nun's headcloth ", 6 letters:
wimple
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Word definitions for wimple in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. headdress of cloth; worn over the head and around the neck and ears by medieval women
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wimple \Wim"ple\, n. [OE. wimpel, AS. winpel; akin to D. & G. wimpel a pennant, streamer, OHG. wimpal a veil, Icel. vimpill, Dan. & Sw. vimpel a pennant, streamer; of uncertain origin. Cf. Gimp .] A covering of silk, linen, or other material, for the neck ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"head and neck covering for women," formerly worn out of doors and especially by nuns, Old English wimpel , from Proto-Germanic *wimpilaz (cognates: Old Saxon wimpal , Old Frisian wimpel , Middle Dutch, Dutch wimpel , Old High German wimpal , German wimpel ...
Usage examples of wimple.
When Alec had pulled the lacings snug, he carefully draped a gauzy wimple over his hair, binding it with a silk cord and arranging the folds to spread gracefully over his shoulders.
Over all her rich robes and state jewels she wore That wimple unseemly bedabbled with gore.
Her headrail and wimple, which would normally cover the hair of a lady of her high birth, hung ignominiously from a briar thatch just beyond where the Lady Alinor was chasing a ram, who was chasing a bleating sheep.
The maiden fidgeted, she plucked at the ends of the wimple that lay about her shoulders, she smoothed the rich cyclas of her mantle and finally she arose and bowing before the princess asked if she might go and bid farewell to her mother.
Hearty merchants wrangled with their customers, apple-cheeked women in kirtles and wimples, or tall men with colorful liripipe hoods.
He saw Mme Musette, with her wimple alight, rigid with hysteria and fear.
As if he had only suggested a stroll through the garden instead of an uninvited late-night visit to the notorious penitentiary, the young nun lowered her wimpled head without argument.
Elmo Wimpler really wanted to invent was a dry cereal that tasted like ham and eggs.
Jack and Tony, and standing in the shadows, Wimpler heard their conversation.
Atlantic Avenue, Wimpler thought that not only were Jack and Tony dead.
As Wimpler watched, Curt pushed the bar up overhead, locked his elbows, then let the bar down to rest on his chest.
The fear in his voice gave Wimpler almost an electric thrill down his spine.
Chiun had driven off, Elmo Wimpler reached into his jacket pocket and took out a small, pink, flimsy piece.
But in his hurried move from his Brooklyn house, Elmo Wimpler obviously had not notified the company, because the telephone in the bedroom was still turned on.
Elmo Wimpler had to die, and Smith would be happy about the result, and able to cling to some small piece of his pre-CURE self by knowing that he had not ordered the death.