Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A blouse worn under a jumper.
- noun A yoke insert for a low-necked dress.
- noun A starched cloth covering the neck and shoulders as part of a nun's habit.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A chemisette worn with a low or square-necked dress.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of short blouse or chemisette, worn under a low-necked dress such as a jumper or pinafore.
- noun a piece of starched cloth covering the shoulders of a nun's habit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Gimp ; a narrow flatbraid or reinforced cord of fabric used forornamental trimming. - noun A kind of short, high-necked
blouse with sleeves of the late Victorian era, designed to be worn under a low-cut dress,jumper , orpinafore dress. - noun A kind of short
chemisette oryoke insert made oflace ,embroidery , or the like, worn with a low-necked dress. - noun A
wimple ; a wide, stifflystarched cloth that covers the neck and shoulders, as part of thehabit ofnuns of certain orders.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a piece of starched cloth covering the shoulders of a nun's habit
- noun a short blouse with sleeves that is worn under a jumper or pinafore dress
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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They were dressed in flowing black with starched white guimpe and wimples.
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Bernardines – Benedictines of the Petit – Picpus wore the black guimpe, and the Benedictines of the Holy Sacrament and of the Rue
Les Miserables 2008
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All the nuns at the convent wore plain blouses and skirts except for Sister Edgar, who had permission from the motherhouse to fit herself out in the old things with the arcane names, the wimple, cincture and guimpe.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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A robe of serge with large sleeves, a large woollen veil, the guimpe which mounts to the chin cut square on the breast, the band which descends over their brow to their eyes, — this is their dress.
Les Miserables 2008
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All the nuns at the convent wore plain blouses and skirts except for Sister Edgar, who had permission from the motherhouse to fit herself out in the old things with the arcane names, the wimple, cincture and guimpe.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Her guimpe was never sufficiently opaque, and never ascended sufficiently high.
Les Miserables 2008
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One caught a glimpse of a black guimpe, and a form that was barely defined, covered with a black shroud.
Les Miserables 2008
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People supped well, and had at table a beautiful neighbor without a guimpe so that her throat was only moderately concealed.
Les Miserables 2008
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All the nuns at the convent wore plain blouses and skirts except for Sister Edgar, who had permission from the motherhouse to fit herself out in the old things with the arcane names, the wimple, cincture and guimpe.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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It landed right on top of the basket of wash, and lay wet and dirty on top of a ruffled guimpe of Dot's.
Four Little Blossoms and Their Winter Fun Mabel C. Hawley
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