wimple

IPA: wˈɪmpʌɫ

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 fold or pleat in cloth.
A ripple, as on the surface of water.
A curve or bend.
A flag or streamer.
A surname.

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

Examples of "wimple" in Sentences

Author comment: the most common use of "wimple" appears to be the head-scarf thing.
1615 CROOKE Body of Man 123 A certaine smooth and slippery veyle or wimple is substrated.
Steevens in his note states that "the wimple was a hood or veil, which fell over the face."
Regarding "wimple", which you misspelled twice, I am aware of the OE usage, but you were not.
Until now, I had always thought that a "wimple" was the name given to the offspring of two Lib Dems...
The wimple was a covering for the neck, said to have been introduced in the reign of Edward I. See Chaucer's
She also looks eerily like Kim Possible in a nun's wimple, which is almost certainly someone's secret fantasy.
"I asked 10 people" - dear God, where did you find them - "if they knew the meaning of 'wimple' and only three did!"
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.
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_.