Noun: wympel
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
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Ful semyly hir wympul pynched was / Hir nose tretys, hir eyen greye as glas[…] (Her wimple was folded in quite a seemly way / Her nose [was] slender; her eyes [were] grey like glass […]) [a. 1394, Geoffrey Chaucer, “General Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, lines 151–152:]
Nouns inflected like wympel
brembel,
throstel,
mapel,
mantel,
hirdel,
trokel,
kirtel,
wympel,
whytel,
veel,
sparkel,
Etymology
Inherited from Old English wimpel, winpel, from Proto-Germanic *wimpilaz. See: Old English Nouns '
wimpel'.
Verbs referencing "wympel"
English Nouns
wimple.
Translations