• IPA: /ˈwɪmpəl/

From Middle English wympel, wimpel, from Old English wimpel, from Proto-Germanic *wimpilaz.

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

From Middle English wimplen.

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

1. To cover with a wimple.
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour's Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [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.

From wimple, a metonymic occupational surname for a maker of wimples.

1. Surname.