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wimpel

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
wimpel, winpel, es; m.
An article of woman's dress, a wimple
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  • Winpel vel orl ricinum, Wrt. Voc. i. 17, I. Winpel anabala (cf. anaboladium amictorium lineum feminarum, quo humeri operiuntur, Migne), 26, I. Wimple goldgewefenum

    cyclade auro texta

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      Hpt. Gl. 506, 63.
  • Wimplum cycladibus, 480, 71: 486, 41: mafortibus, i.

    velaminibus

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      526, 52 : Anglia xiii. 37, 293.
Etymology
[Sum seið ꝥ hit limpeð to ene wummon cundeliche forte were wimpel. Nai: wimpel. . . ne nemned hali write, ah wriheles of heuet . . . Wrihen, þe Apostel seið, naut wimplin, A. R. 420, note a. Hyre body wyþ a mantel, a wympel aboute her heued, R. Glouc. 338, 4. Ful semely hire wympel ipynched was, Chauc. Prol. 151. O. H. Ger. wimpal theristrum: Icel. vimpill a hood, veil.]
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v.  winpel.
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  • wimpel, n.