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ลองค้นหาคำในรูปแบบอื่น ๆ เพื่อให้ได้ผลลัพธ์มากขึ้นหรือน้อยลง: -wimple-, *wimple*
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English-Thai: NECTEC's Lexitron-2 Dictionary [with local updates]
wimple(n) ผ้าโพกศีรษะของสตรีในยุโรปสมัยกลาง, See also: ผ้าโพกศีรษะของแม่ชี

English-Thai: HOPE Dictionary [with local updates]
wimple(วิม'เพิล) n. ผ้าโพกศีรษะของสตรี, ผ้าโพกศีรษะของแม่ชี, รอยพับ, รอยจีบ, ส่วนโค้ง, บริเวณโค้ง, คลื่นที่กระเพื่อมเล็กน้อย vt. สวมผ้าโพกศีรษะ, ทำให้เป็นคลื่นหรือเป็นลอน, ปิดหน้า vi. เป็นคลื่นกระเพื่อมเล็กน้อย, ไปตามโค้ง

English-Thai: Nontri Dictionary
wimple(n) ผ้าคลุมศีรษะและคอ(พวกนางชี)

WordNet (3.0)
wimple(n) headdress of cloth; worn over the head and around the neck and ears by medieval women

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
Wimple

n. [ OE. wimpel, AS. winpel; akin to D. & G. wimpel a pennant, streamer, OHG. wimpal a veil, Icel. vimpill, Dan. & Sw. vimpel a pennant, streamer; of uncertain origin. Cf. Gimp. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Full seemly her wympel ipinched is. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

For she had laid her mournful stole aside,
And widowlike sad wimple thrown away. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then Vivian rose,
And from her brown-locked head the wimple throws. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A flag or streamer. Weale. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wimple

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Wimpled p. pr. & vb. n. Wimpling ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To clothe with a wimple; to cover, as with a veil; hence, to hoodwink. “She sat ywympled well.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To draw down, as a veil; to lay in folds or plaits, as a veil. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wimple

v. i. To lie in folds; also, to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to ripple; to undulate. “Wimpling waves.” Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

For with a veil, that wimpled everywhere,
Her head and face was hid. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

With me through . . . meadows stray,
Where wimpling waters make their way. Ramsay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary (pronunciation guide only)
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