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nun | wimple |

As nouns the difference between nun and wimple

is that nun is a member of a christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, in some cases living together in a cloister or nun can be the fourteenth letter of many semitic alphabets/abjads (phoenician, aramaic, hebrew, syriac, arabic and others) 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.

nun

English

Etymology 1

From ) a term of address for elderly persons, perhaps from children's speech, reminiscent of nana, like papa etc.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, in some cases living together in a cloister.
  • By extension, member of a similar female community in other confessions.
    • Synonyms
    * sister, moniale, sistren
    Antonyms
    * (member of a religious community of men) * brother * friar * monk * friar and frater or father
    Derived terms
    * nunhood * nunlike, nun-like * nunnery
    Related terms
    * nonnus

    Etymology 2

    Ultimately from (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * noon *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

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    References

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    wimple

    English

    (wikipedia wimple)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) wimpel, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
    • (Weale)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Verb

    (wimpl)
  • To cover with a wimple.
  • * Shakespeare
    • this wimpled , whining, purblind, wayward boy
  • 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. citation
    • , 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.
    • The wind wimples the surface of water.
  • To flutter.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1920, author=George Allan England, title=The Flying Legion, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , 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= citation
    • , 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}}