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- noun Plural form of
wimple .
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Examples
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In Isa. 3: 22 this word is plural, rendered "wimples;"
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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Another high point was Catherine Zuber's costumes, a dizzying farrago of color and shape—especially the witty headgear, which included stovepipe hats and turbans on the village women, raspberry-hued wigs on some of the castle ladies, and the wings, veils and ruffled wimples sometimes framing beards of the counterfeit nuns.
A Naughty Romp From Rossini Heidi Waleson 2011
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The satellite dishes on the roofs resembled the wimples of an order of computer-literate nuns, committed to the sanctity of the workstation and the pieties of the spreadsheet.
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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? Ben Rooney 2011
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Sc. 1638 SIR A. JOHNSTON Diary (S.H.S.) 320 Notwithstanding al wyles, wimples, offers, motions, and uther letts.
Medallion Vulcan | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009
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They're wearing long gray capes, with heads covered by cornettes, stiff white wimples bent like wings: The Flying Nun meets Doctor Who.
New York Fashion Week 2011: Showmanship by Michael Kors, Thom Browne, Derek Lam 2011
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They were dressed in flowing black with starched white guimpe and wimples.
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Why do Christian priests wear cassocks and the nuns wear wimples: because it was the style when the church finally gained its true strength.
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But he was also going for the larger idea of freedom- expressed in the undressing, in his playful takes on classic American silhouettes, in the soaring vocals and even in the wimples and eyelashes, which he said made him think of butterflies.
New York Fashion Week 2011: Showmanship by Michael Kors, Thom Browne, Derek Lam 2011
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I. 225 A shepherd. .hates the wimples, as he calls them, of a turnpike.
Medallion Vulcan | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009
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