wimple
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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
They were taking a Theory of Errors class that would make Sor Asunci6n’s hair stand on end even under her wimple.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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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
Dears, doff your olive wimples, And listen while you may.
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Burton Egbert Stevenson
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
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Forsooth, Maria, so modest and pious is thy bearing, that it is easy to see thou art preparing thyself to become a black wimpled nun.
From The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 by Armando Palacio Vald?s
A 21-gun salute boomed from the British war boat Suffolk anchored off Nanking on the mighty wimpling Yantze.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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
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Through the valley yonder the canal goes wimpling about, and in and out, on its lazy way to Glasgow, and cool, sweet, and clear the water looks.
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Gordon Stables
Ayton is placed in a lovely valley on the River Eye, which goes wimpling and winding round it.
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Gordon Stables
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