English Dictionary

wimple

/ˈwɪmpəl/

verb

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.

She wimples her head with a white cloth.

意味（1）

To cover with a wimple.

this wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy

意味（2）

To draw down; to lower, like a veil.

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.

意味（3）

To cause to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to cause to ripple or undulate.

The wind wimples the surface of water.

意味（4）

To flutter.

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.