wimple

“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

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

And underneath her wimple She has curlers in her hair There was a voice from outside the picture.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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

No green demons leaped these sullen ten-foot barricades, and no forwandered sea-serpent threw oozy wimples on the green-sward or hissed at us between the rusty bars.

From The Dew of Their Youth by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

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

Stars wavered and wimpled in the black waters of the Hudson as a launch put out in silence from the foot of Twenty-seventh Street.

From The Flying Legion by George Allan England

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

Not seldom there came a fierce, white, wimpling flash, and the encompassing mountains seemed ready to burn up in the glare.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

Out in the wimpling fairway of the Black Lane, the Hollan Isle lay anchored.

From Our National Defense: The Patriotism of Peace by George Hebard Maxwell