How To Use Wimple In A Sentence
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Her garments this time were a pale lilac and a section of her wimple was wound around her neck, shielding her throat.
THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
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The lord had always thought it was a shame that women, in the most blossoming point in their life, had to bind their hair and hide it under wimples and veils.
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As a nun she is beatific, her head, in a wimple, tilted toward heaven, a prayer book clasped to her breast.
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1615 CROOKE Body of Man 123 A certaine smooth and slippery veyle or wimple is substrated.
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In the house, women wore an odd sort of head-dress called a wimple, which came down to the eyebrows, and was fastened by pins above the ears.
Our Little Lady Six Hundred Years Ago
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The black wimple enhanced the whiteness of her skin.
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You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow.
Entropic Realism and ‘The Road’ « Gerry Canavan
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Laura Farrant took off her wimple and handed it to her dresser.
STAGE FRIGHT
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Among the community of iPhone developers it is a reasonably safe bet that not too many of them wear wimples and sing vespers on a regular basis, which makes Sister Catherine Wybourne who tweets as @Digitalnun, Benedictine nun, HTML coder and now iPhone developer, something of special case.
How Many iPhone Developers Wear Wimples?
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She stared calmly back, her jet black hair escaping from underneath the wimple.
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Until now, I had always thought that a "wimple" was the name given to the offspring of two Lib Dems...
Ann Widdecombe for London Mayor?
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All the nuns at the convent wore plain blouses and skirts except for Sister Edgar, who had permission from the motherhouse to fit herself out in the old things with the arcane names, the wimple, cincture and guimpe.
Underworld
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I asked 10 people" - dear God, where did you find them - "if they knew the meaning of 'wimple' and only three did!
Ann Widdecombe for London Mayor?
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In the seclusion of a monastery, a small group of Carmelite nuns tailor their own multi-layered habits - chocolate brown in colour, their wimples are pristine white, and the overlying veil is black.
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Her garments this time were a pale lilac and a section of her wimple was wound around her neck, shielding her throat.
THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
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In ward wary the watcher hearing come that man mildhearted eft rising with swire ywimpled to him her gate wide undid.
Ulysses
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Armour; brasses of ladies, with their little dogs at their feet and dresses which show the changes in fashion from century to century and make clear all the mysteries of kirtles and cotte-hardies, wimples and partlets and farthingales and the head-dresses appropriate to each successive mode.
Medieval People
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It's hot and she looks a bit rosy under the wimple, but comfortable.
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There's something about his knit cap with the hood covering it that looks as holy as a wimple.
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It looks attractive on the menu, but really, you'd be much better off with the wimpled and spartan grain or pulse.
The Broad and Narrow Way
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‘My mother will give you your first wimple and veil,’ she said flatly.
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Again we had to wait ages because we were so far away, but eventually he passed within a few feet of us and I caught a brief glimpse of his smiling face through the clouds of wimples and rosaries.
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Saying that, I think I'd suit a wimple and I quite like navy.
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So it would appear that my chances of seeing a bearded man walking around in leather chaps and a latex nun's wimple are doubly-remote.
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A nun, fashionable in her pink lace-edged wimple, lifted her skirts and thick white petticoats, her little nose wrinkling at the smells.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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In the event, I was unable to attend as my wimple was at the cleaners.
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They were dressed in flowing black with starched white guimpe and wimples.
CANTICLES • by K.C. Ball
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Laura Farrant took off her wimple and handed it to her dresser.
STAGE FRIGHT
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Cora refused to wear such a confining and uncomfortable article of clothing as the wimple, which wrapped around a woman's head and neck.
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As a nun she is beatific, her head, in a wimple, tilted toward heaven, a prayer book clasped to her breast.
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Their gowns or tunics are so immensely long, that the fair dames are obliged to hold them up, to enable them to move; whilst a sweeping train trails after them; and over the head and round the neck is a variety of, or substitute for, the wimple, which is termed a _gorget_.
Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851
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If you drop in here, you honestly never know if you'll find me wearing a wimple or a bikini.
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The wimple was a covering for the neck, said to have been introduced in the reign of Edward I. See Chaucer's
Marmion
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And will traditional Catholic nuns still be allowed to wear wimples?
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One day, as she roams deep in the forest, ill with allergies and the flu, her sweat-shirt hood pulled tightly around her like a postmodern wimple, Ann experiences an apparition of the Virgin Mary.
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Steevens in his note states that "the wimple was a hood or veil, which fell over the face.
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6
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Maria runs off to the nunnery, blowing her nose on her wimple.
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The very tangible result: industry rumor has it that a couple of years back, a major publishing house required a writer who spent a significant amount of time living with cloistered nuns to obtained signed releases from each and every one of the wimpled ones, swearing that they would not sue the publisher over the book.
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Author comment: the most common use of "wimple" appears to be the head-scarf thing.
The first paragraph contest thread
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This is very similar to the detailed, ornate, velvety and yet touchingly naive backdrops of those medieval scenes, that can be glimpsed through narrow windows in front of which wimpled ladies exchange devotional books with chivalrous gentlemen.
Archive 2008-06-01
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Regarding "wimple", which you misspelled twice, I am aware of the OE usage, but you were not.
Ann Widdecombe for London Mayor?
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A nun, fashionable in her pink lace-edged wimple, lifted her skirts and thick white petticoats, her little nose wrinkling at the smells.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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Espidreen, no longer looking feminine, had exchanged her silks for a simple brown robe and wimple that covered her hair and made her look much like Giles, whose chain mail coif covered his own head.
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She also looks eerily like Kim Possible in a nun's wimple, which is almost certainly someone's secret fantasy.
COMIXTALK
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Nuns in their blue-and-white wimples glide smiling to and fro, and there are dozens of foreign helpers, the seriously spiritually committed young who wash sheets and fetch water.
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Espidreen, no longer looking feminine, had exchanged her silks for a simple brown robe and wimple that covered her hair and made her look much like Giles, whose chainmail coif covered his own head.
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I can still remember "our" nun, Sister Carmela, a drill sergeant of a woman, wimpled and veiled, with long swishy robes and a lethal black crucifix hanging from a hidden string of rosary beads, which she used with Terminator precision to punish miscreants.
Me and Sister Carmela
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Less problematic on the cleaning front, owing to the rougher fabric and darker colour, is the monastic habit - cowled brown with a rope for the lads, black-and-white with a wimple for the ladies.
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Sister Amelia looked like a hobbit in a wimpled habit: about 5 feet tall, a hundred and fifty pounds, Mediterranean-brown skin, inch-thick glasses and a look like she was trying to read biblical Greek written on the face of who- or whatever she was looking at.
The first paragraph contest thread
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The nuns wore special garb that day in addition to their wimples, belts, beads and veils.
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When did I join the Amish community, sitting with my wimple on, shaking my head sadly at the waste and dissipation of the modern world?