wimple

Synonyymisanakirja

wimple

päänkoriste, päähine.

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Englannin sanakirja

wimple englanniksi

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.

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.

(rfquotek)

6. To cover with a wimple.

7. Shakespeare

this wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy

8. To draw down; to lower, like a veil.

9. {{quote-book|year=1590|author=w:Edmund Spenser|Edmund Spenser|title=Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I|chapter=|edition=1921 ed.|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/15272

10. To cause to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to cause to ripple or undulate.

The wind wimples the surface of water.

11. To flutter.

12. {{quote-book|year=1920|author=George Allan England|title=The Flying Legion|chapter=|edition=|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12265

13. {{quote-book|year=1836|author=Joseph Rodman Drake|title=The Culprit Fay|chapter=|edition=|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/317

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