wimple

The most deadpan cynic to ever don a wimple, most of her prayers come in the form of exhortations to “sweet suffering Jesus.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2022

“Mr. Bu-bu-bu-bu-Biden,” the nun taunted, until Biden’s mother went to the school and told the nun that if she ever spoke to Joey that way again she would rip her wimple right off her head.

From The New Yorker ● May 13, 2019

What’s most striking is the juxtaposition of the monochrome nun – she wore the traditional habit complete with wimple and veil – and the brilliant colours which burst from her work.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 22, 2018

Six hours later — clad in a purple velvet suit, a massive belt buckle and a shirt collar as big as a nurse’s wimple — he was ushered into the Oval Office.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 13, 2015

Who was to know if she sat on the stoop until she heard the crinkle of the midwife’s starched wimple?

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman

Founded at the end of the ’70s, the Sisters, who wear white face paint, playfully garish outfits, and cartoonishly oversized wimples, are both theatrical and charity-oriented.

From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2023

They even have cute freckles beneath their wimples.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2022

In the first and longer part, they wear pale gray balaclavas and gray leotards; the balaclavas give the suggestion of medieval wimples, but their legs and arms are bare.

From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2013

There is a glorious, back-to-the-70s daftness about Horrible Histories' parade of togas, wimples, ruffs and tights that makes it appealing – to a wide audience.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 17, 2011

Come, old man, prithee, measure off the Cyprus, and look out the wimples quickly, or this damsel of mine will leave me never a farthing in my pocket.”

From Earl Hubert's Daughter The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century by Emily Sarah Holt

In and out of Westeros, we’ve aged, starting out as Aryas and ending up as wimpled Lady Olennas.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 12, 2019

He painted some with owls, and one day, on an impulse, he painted a rock with a wimpled nun.

From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2016

Between Nancy Reagan’s death and her funeral on Friday 11 March, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence reached out in their own wimpled way to share their pain, their anger and, occasionally, their sympathy.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 11, 2016

Thus they are greatly prized not only by historians but also by rubbing collectors who find a gentil parfit knight and his wimpled lady good company on their walls.

From Time Magazine Archive

All up and down Lost Valley the little winds wimpled the grass where the cattle grazed, and brought the scent of flowers.

From Tharon of Lost Valley by Frank Tenney Johnson

Of course, "somewhere" meant the Presidential Hunting Lodge, on secluded, wimpling Lake Werbellin, a scant 40 miles from Berlin, yet remote as a hut in the Black Forest.

From Time Magazine Archive

A 21-gun salute boomed from the British war boat Suffolk anchored off Nanking on the mighty wimpling Yantze.

From Time Magazine Archive

As they cast anchor off the Royal Yacht Club, in the wimpling Frognerkilen, they had Oslo on their starboard and suburban Bygdo, with its Castle Oskarshal, on their port.

From Time Magazine Archive

Our ramble along the wimpling Nith lies for the most part in a second Burnsland, so closely is it associated with his personality and poetry.

From A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe

A wimpling burn ran past the end of the inn garden, and here on a rustic bench I found my comrade when I sought her some hours later.

From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Stuart Travis