Cloth vs Wimple - What's the difference?
cloth | wimple |
(uncountable) A woven fabric such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use.
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
, title=
, chapter=2 A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.
A form of attire that represents a particular profession.
(in idioms) Priesthood, clergy.
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.
A fold or pleat in cloth.
A ripple, as on the surface of water.
A curve or bend.
A flag or streamer.
To cover with a wimple.
* Shakespeare
To draw down; to lower, like a veil.
* {{quote-book, year=1590, author=, title=Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, chapter=, edition=1921 ed.
, passage=IV A lovely Ladie[*] rode him faire beside, Upon a lowly Asse more white then snow, Yet she much whiter, but the same did hide 30 Under a vele, that wimpled was full low, And over all a blacke stole she did throw, As one that inly mournd: so was she sad, And heavie sat upon her palfrey slow; Seemed in heart some hidden care she had, 35 And by her in a line a milke white lambe she lad.}}
To cause to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to cause to ripple or undulate.
To flutter.
* {{quote-book, year=1920, author=George Allan England, title=The Flying Legion, chapter=, edition=
, passage=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.}}
* {{quote-book, year=1836, author=Joseph Rodman Drake, title=The Culprit Fay, chapter=, edition=
, passage=She wimpled about in the pale moonbeam, Like a feather that floats on a wind tossed-stream; And momently athwart her track The quarl upreared his island back, And the fluttering scallop behind would float, And patter the water about the boat; But he bailed her out with his colen-bell, And he kept her trimmed with a wary tread, While on every side like lightening fell}}
As nouns the difference between cloth and wimple
is that cloth is (uncountable) a woven fabric such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use while wimple is 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.As a verb wimple is
to cover with a wimple.cloth
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete) * (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)Noun
(en-noun)citation, passage=“H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what [...] will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth . […]”}}
Synonyms
* (woven fabric) material, stuff * See alsoDerived terms
(terms derived from "cloth") * cheesecloth * cut from the same cloth * dishcloth * facecloth * horsecloth * loincloth * man of the cloth * sackcloth * tablecloth * take the cloth * washcloth * whole cloth, from whole cloth, out of whole cloth * wire clothwimple
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(wikipedia wimple)Etymology 1
From (etyl) wimpel, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- (Weale)
Etymology 2
From (etyl)Verb
(wimpl)- this wimpled , whining, purblind, wayward boy
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- The wind wimples the surface of water.
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