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n. (plural of wimple English)
Usage examples of "wimples".
Their antique crones' faces were framed in wimples just as white, their skin as grey and runnelled as droughted earth by comparison.
Where were the elves and gnomes and fairies, the village maidens and the village youths, the old old women in white linen wimples and bombazeen skirts, the old men sucking the enormous pipes on which they had carved their own grotesque and wrinkled effigies?
They came up the long aisle of the black infirmary, laughing together like children out on a prank, carrying long tapers in silver holders, the bells lining the forehead-bands of their wimples chiming little silver runs of sound.
The light which had shone through the wings of their wimples as they gathered around the bearded man's bed vanished, and all was darkness once more.
He stopped short and simply stared at the two women sitting on either side of their father, both wearing gowns of light blue velvet with a darker blue chemise, both wearing blue wimples, both identical.
A number of women in long dresses and wimples, shock-haired children, and aproned artisans gaped at him as he passed the gate.