Dictionary entry
Wimple
Pronunciation: /ˈwɪmp(ə)l/
Pronunciation
/ˈwɪmp(ə)l/
Myanmar Meaning
(အလယ်ခေတ်အမျိုးသမီးများနှင့် ယခု အချို့ ခရစ်ယာန်သီလရှင်များ) မျက်နှာလှပ်၍ ခေါင်း၊ လည်ပင်း၊ မေးစေ့ ပတ်ဖုံးရသော အဝတ်ခေါင်းစွပ်။
Definition
wimple /'wÇmpl/ n (အလယ္ေခတ္အမ်ဳိးသမီးမ်ားႏွင့္ ယခု အခ်ဳိ႕ ခရစ္ယာန္သီလရွင္မ်ား) မ်က္ႏွာလွပ္၍ ေခါင္း၊ လည္ပင္း၊ ေမးေစ့ ပတ္ဖံုးရေသာ အဝတ္ေခါင္းစြပ္။
Examples
- ‘Again we had to wait ages because we were so far away
- but eventually he passed within a few feet of us and I caught a brief glimpse of his smiling face through the clouds of wimples and rosaries.’
- ‘One day
- as she roams deep in the forest
- ill with allergies and the flu
- her sweat-shirt hood pulled tightly around her like a postmodern wimple
- Ann experiences an apparition of the Virgin Mary.’
- ‘In the seclusion of a monastery
- a small group of Carmelite nuns tailor their own multi-layered habits - chocolate brown in colour
- their wimples are pristine white
- and the overlying veil is black.’
- ‘Nuns in their blue-and-white wimples glide smiling to and fro
- and there are dozens of foreign helpers
- the seriously spiritually committed young who wash sheets and fetch water.’
- ‘The lord had always thought it was a shame that women
- in the most blossoming point in their life
- had to bind their hair and hide it under wimples and veils.’
- ‘As a nun she is beatific
- her head
- in a wimple
- tilted toward heaven
- a prayer book clasped to her breast.’
- ‘‘My mother will give you your first wimple and veil
- ’ she said flatly.’
- ‘It's hot and she looks a bit rosy under the wimple
- but comfortable.’
- ‘In the event
- I was unable to attend as my wimple was at the cleaners.’
- ‘There's something about his knit cap with the hood covering it that looks as holy as a wimple.’
- ‘Cora refused to wear such a confining and uncomfortable article of clothing as the wimple
- which wrapped around a woman's head and neck.’
- ‘Maria runs off to the nunnery
- blowing her nose on her wimple.’
- ‘If you drop in here
- you honestly never know if you'll find me wearing a wimple or a bikini.’
- ‘And will traditional Catholic nuns still be allowed to wear wimples?’
- ‘So it would appear that my chances of seeing a bearded man walking around in leather chaps and a latex nun's wimple are doubly-remote.’
- ‘Less problematic on the cleaning front
- owing to the rougher fabric and darker colour
- is the monastic habit - cowled brown with a rope for the lads
- black-and-white with a wimple for the ladies.’
- ‘The nuns wore special garb that day in addition to their wimples
- belts
- beads and veils.’
- ‘Saying that
- I think I'd suit a wimple and I quite like navy.’
- ‘Espidreen
- no longer looking feminine
- had exchanged her silks for a simple brown robe and wimple that covered her hair and made her look much like Giles
- whose chainmail coif covered his own head.’
- ‘When did I join the Amish community
- sitting with my wimple on
- shaking my head sadly at the waste and dissipation of the modern world?’