Dictionary Entry
wimple
wimple is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as noun, transitive verb, and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A covering of silk, linen, or other material, for the neck and chin, formerly worn by women as an outdoor protection, and still retained in the dress of nuns. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A covering of silk, linen, or other material, for the neck and chin, formerly worn by women as an outdoor protection, and still retained in the dress of nuns.
- 2noun
A flag or streamer.
- 3transitive verb
To clothe with a wimple; to cover, as with a veil; hence, to hoodwink.
- 4transitive verb
To draw down, as a veil; to lay in folds or plaits, as a veil.
- 5transitive verb
To cause to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to cause to ripple or undulate; as, the wind wimples the surface of water.
- 6intransitive verb
To lie in folds; also, to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to ripple; to undulate.
- 7noun
headdress of cloth; worn over the head and around the neck and ears by medieval women
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