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Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot

Ääntäminen

  • ÄäntäminenSouthern England
  • Tuntematon aksentti:
    • IPA: /ˈwɪmpəl/
KieliKäännökset
hollantinonnenkap, plooi, rimpel, bocht, kromming
italiasoggolo
japaniずきん (zukin)
ranskaguimpe, gorgerette, gorgerin

Määritelmät

Substantiivi

  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.

Verbi

  1. To cover with a wimple.
  2. To draw down; to lower, like a veil.
  3. To cause to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to cause to ripple or undulate.
  4. To flutter.

Esimerkit

  • this wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy
  • IV A lovely Ladie[*] rode him faire beside, Upon a lowly Asse more white then snow, Yet she much whiter, but the same did hide 30 Under a vele, that wimpled was full low, And over all a blacke stole she did throw, As one that inly mournd: so was she sad, And heavie sat upon her palfrey slow; Seemed in heart some hidden care she had, 35 And by her in a line a milke white lambe she lad.
  • The wind wimples the surface of water.
  • Stars wavered and wimpled in the black waters of the Hudson as a launch put out in silence from the foot of Twenty-seventh Street.
  • She wimpled about in the pale moonbeam, Like a feather that floats on a wind tossed-stream; And momently athwart her track The quarl upreared his island back, And the fluttering scallop behind would float, And patter the water about the boat; But he bailed her out with his colen-bell, And he kept her trimmed with a wary tread, While on every side like lightening fell

Taivutusmuodot

Partisiipin perfektiwimpled
Imperfektiwimpled
Partisiipin preesenswimpling
Monikkowimples
Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesenswimples

Luokat


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.

A wimple as shown in Portrait of a Woman, 1430–1435, by Robert Campin (1375/1379–1444), National Gallery, London. The wimple is constructed of four layers of cloth and the pins holding it in place are visible at the top of the head.

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.

Monumental brass of Margaret, Lady Camoys (d.1310), St George's Church, Trotton, West Sussex. This is the earliest surviving brass of a female figure in England. She wears around her neck a wimple (or gorget) which hides the chin and sides of the face. This style of dress continued in fashion until the end of the reign of King Edward III (1327–1377).