Crossword-Solution: WIMPLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Wimple | n. | 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. |
| Wimple | n. | A flag or streamer. |
| Wimple | v. t. | To clothe with a wimple; to cover, as with a veil; hence, to hoodwink. |
| Wimple | v. t. | To draw down, as a veil; to lay in folds or plaits, as a veil. |
| Wimple | v. t. | 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. |
| Wimple | v. i. | To lie in folds; also, to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to ripple; to undulate. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “WIMPLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Nun's headdress | 1 answer |
| Sister’s headgear | 1 answer |
| headdress of cloth | 1 answer |
| garment framing the face, worn by medieval women and now by nuns | 1 answer |
| What some nuns will have none of | 1 answer |
| Sister's headgear | 1 answer |
| Part of a nun's habit | 1 answer |
| Nun's headwear | 1 answer |
| Nun's headgear | 1 answer |
| Nun's headcloth | 1 answer |
| Nun's head covering. | 1 answer |
| Garb in an early "Sound of Music" lyric | 1 answer |
| Convent headdress | 1 answer |
| gorget | 3 answers |
| Nun's wear | 5 answers |
| BROKEN-HEARTED NUN AT BOTTOM | 10 answers |
| Headwear | 17 answers |
| Headdress | 40 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZEECAM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with WIMPLE (5)
Her long mourning robes and her flowing wimple of black cypress, enhanced the whiteness of her skin, and the beauty of her light-coloured and flowing tresses, which time had neither thinned nor mingled with silver.
Cormac saw that, and made this song:-- (1) “At the door of my soul she is standing, So sweet in the gleam of her garment: Her footfall awakens a fury, A fierceness of love that I knew not, Those feet of a wench in her wimple, Their weird is my sorrow and troubling, --Or naught may my knowledge avail me-- Both now and for aye to endure.” Then Steingerd knew she was seen.
The river ran between the stepping-stones with a pretty wimple; a bird sang loudly in the wood; the hill-tops looked immeasurably high, and as he glanced at them from time to time seemed to contemplate his movements with a beneficent but awful curiosity.
Dainty sandals encased her feet, while a wimple of violet silk bordered in gold fringe, lay becomingly over her head and shoulders.
Instead, he drew a dingy, ragged dress from the bundle beneath the thwart and in this disguised himself as an old woman, drawing a cotton wimple low over his head and forehead to hide his short hair.
Quotes with WIMPLE (2)
When sonneteering Wordsworth re-creates the landing of Mary Queen of Scots at the mouth of the Derwent -Dear to the Loves, and to the Graces vowed, The Queen drew back the wimple that she wore- he unveils nothing less than a canvas by Rubens, baroque master of baroque masters; this is the landing of a TRAGIC Marie de Medicis. Yet so receptive was the English ear to sheep-Wordsworth's perverse 'Enough of Art' that it is not any of these works of supreme art, these master-sonne…
I got so far away from what they told you in acting class: Do something different. Producers kept offering me the 'Sister Act' movie, but I said, 'My fans don't want to see me in a wimple.' I literally said, 'My fans don't want to see me in a wimple.'
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1955–2025).