• IPA: /ˈwɪmpəl/

wimple (plural wimples)

1. A cloth which usually covers the head and is worn around the neck and chin. It was worn by women in medieval Europe and is still worn by nuns in certain orders.
2. A fold or pleat in cloth.
3. A ripple, as on the surface of water.
4. A curve or bend.
5. A flag or streamer.

• Italian: soggolo

wimple (wimples, present participle wimpling; past and past participle wimpled)

1. To cover with a wimple.
   • c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene i]:

     this wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy

2. To draw down; to lower, like a veil.
3. To cause to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to cause to ripple or undulate.

   The wind wimples the surface of water.

4. To flutter.