wimple

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A cloth wound around the head, framing the face, and drawn into folds beneath the chin, worn by women in medieval times and as part of the habit of certain orders of nuns.
• noun A fold or pleat in cloth.
• noun A ripple, as on the surface of water.
• noun A curve or bend.
• intransitive verb To cover with or dress in a wimple.
• intransitive verb To cause to form folds, pleats, or ripples.
• intransitive verb Archaic To form or lie in folds.
• intransitive verb To ripple.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To cover with or as with a wimple or veil; deck with a wimple; hide with a wimple.
• To hood wink.
• To lay in plaits or folds; draw down in folds.
• To resemble or suggest wimples; undulate; ripple: as, a brook that wimples onward.
• To lie in folds; make folds or irregular plaits.
• noun A covering of silk, linen, or other material laid in folds over the head and round the chin, the sides of the face, and the neck, formerly worn by women out of doors, and still retained as a conventual dress for nuns.
• noun A plait or fold.
• noun A loose or fluttering piece of cloth of any sort; a pennon or flag.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To lie in folds; also, to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to ripple; to undulate.
• noun A covering of silk, linen, or other material, for the neck and chin, formerly worn by women as an outdoor protection, and still retained in the dress of nuns.
• noun A flag or streamer.
• transitive verb To clothe with a wimple; to cover, as with a veil; hence, to hoodwink.
• transitive verb To draw down, as a veil; to lay in folds or plaits, as a veil.
• transitive verb To cause to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to cause to ripple or undulate.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• 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.
• noun A fold or pleat in cloth.
• noun A ripple, as on the surface of water.
• noun A curve or bend.
• verb To cover with a wimple.
• verb To draw down; to lower.
• verb To cause to ripple.
• verb To flutter.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun headdress of cloth; worn over the head and around the neck and ears by medieval women