This week’s theme
Is it a noun, adjective, or verb?

This week’s words
primary
rollercoaster
wimple
sojourn
high-grade

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(WIM-puhl)

MEANING:

noun:	1. A covering worn around the head and neck by women in medieval times and by some nuns.
	2. A fold, wrinkle, or pleat.
	3. A curve, bend, or twist.
verb tr.:	1. To cover.
	2. To cause something to bend or ripple.
verb intr.:	1. To form folds.
	2. To meander or ripple.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Old English wimpel. Ultimately from the Indo-European root weip- (to turn or tremble), which also gave us wipe, whip, vibrate, waif, and waive. Earliest documented use: before 1150, for verb: 1225.

USAGE:

“I sit / with hands folded, by a pond, a pool, wimpled by unknowing.
Kathleen Ossip; The Do-Over; Sarabande; 2015.

“The gray cobbles ... wimpled like the pebbles beneath the surface of a brook.”
William Faulkner; A Fable; Random House; 1954.

See more usage examples of wimple in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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