Usually means: Cloth covering head, neck, shoulders.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. wimple: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wimple: Merriam-Webster
  3. wimple: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wimple: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. wimple: Collins English Dictionary
  6. wimple: Vocabulary.com
  7. Wimple, wimple: Wordnik
  8. wimple: Wiktionary
  9. wimple: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. wimple: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. wimple: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Wimple, wimple: Dictionary.com
  13. wimple: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Wimple: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Wimple: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. wimple: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. wimple: Rhymezone
  18. wimple: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  19. Wimple: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. wimple: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. wimple: FreeDictionary.org
  22. wimple: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. wimple: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. wimple: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wimple: Encyclopedia

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Wimple: Easton Bible
  2. Wimple: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  3. WIMPLE: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wimple: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. FASHION AND DESIGN (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Wimple)

noun:  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.
noun:  A fold or pleat in cloth.
noun:  A ripple, as on the surface of water.
noun:  A curve or bend.
noun:  A flag or streamer.
verb:  To cover with a wimple.
verb:  To draw down; to lower, like a veil.
verb:  To cause to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to cause to ripple or undulate.
verb:  To flutter.
noun:  A surname.

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