wimple

For a while, I tried reclining against a V-shaped pregnancy pillow, but I kept sinking backwards into it until I was wearing it like a wimple.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 20, 2021

“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

The tension Leo can generate simply by entering a room is extraordinary; the folds in her wimple look like extra neck tendons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2017

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

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

When the wimples start quivering, the pinched mouths break into sunbeam smiles, and the nuns start rocking to raise the Gothic rafters, all’s right in the kingdom of musical comedy at “Sister Act.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2011

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

Four linen wimples; two pairs of cloth boots, two of slippers; two corsets; three of those broidered kerchiefs, one better than the others; four pairs of hosen.

From A Forgotten Hero Not for Him 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

On Tuesday's Mother Angelica Live, scriptless and sometimes armed only with a theme--youthful piety, for example--she rambles for 30 minutes or so about whatever enters her wimpled head.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rannveig, an old wimpled woman, enters as if from a door at the unseen end of the hall.

From King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? by Gordon Bottomley

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Off we go with delight from desk and book to a breezy field, a wimpling brook, a quiet pond in woodland shade.

From Little Masterpieces of Science: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer by George Iles

Our way thither—the same once so familiar to Smith and his cruel steed—lies along the green valley through which the wimpling Foss ripples and sings on its way to the Ouse.

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