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wimpled

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English

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Etymology

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From wimple-ed.

Adjective

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wimpled (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a wimple.
    • 1853, Various, Notes and Queries, Number 190, June 18, 1853[1]:
      Two are figures of cross-legged knights in chain armour and surcoats: one is a female figure wimpled.
    • 1868, Sophie May, Dotty Dimple at Her Grandmother's[2]:
      She put on a white wrapper of Susy's, and, looking like a wimpled nun, followed Polly down stairs.

Verb

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wimpled

  1. simple past and past participle of wimple