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

An important-looking woman, with a sharp nose and a sharp glance and a wimple starched into sharp pleats.

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

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

In one scene three nuns wearing huge wimples cross themselves frantically.

From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2010

These wimples were sometimes very broad, and were almost like a mantle, so that they fell over the shoulders below the breast.

From English Costume by Dion Clayton Calthrop

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

Gaily the lake sparkled and wimpled in the morning sun, unvexed now by any steamer's prow, unshaded by any smoke from cities or roaring mills along its banks.

From Darkness and Dawn by George Allan England

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

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

From either side brooklets flow through wooded glens to join the wimpling Nidd, and at the mouth of one of these we find Ramsgill, where Aram was born.

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

Now the Blednoch is a slow stream, which ordinarily flows in the deep ditch of its channel, wimpling and twining through the sands of the bay of Wigtown.

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