Manoah and his wife, the wife wearing a wimple

16th century wimple.

The wimple is a garment of mediaeval Europe worn by women. It is a cloth which usually covers the head and is worn around the neck and chin. At many stages of medieval culture it was unseemly for a married woman to show her hair. A wimple might be elaborately starched, and creased and folded in prescribed ways, even supported on wire or wicker framing (cornette). Italian women abandoned their headcloths in the 15th century, or replaced them with transparent gauze, and showed their elaborate braids. Both elaborate laundry and elaborate braiding demonstrated status, in that such grooming was being performed by others. Geoffrey Chaucer in his Canterbury Tales has the Wife of Bath and also the Prioress depicted wearing them. Today the wimple is worn by some nuns who still don the traditional habit. Images from the Maciejowski Bible, Leaf 14: Manoah and his wife give a sacrifice Source: [1] Copyright expired due to age, circa 1250 This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Images from the Maciejowski Bible, Leaf 14: Manoah and his wife give a sacrifice Source: [1] Copyright expired due to age, circa 1250 This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Download high resolution version (760x907, 87 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (760x907, 87 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Template:Jews and Jewdaism Template:The Holy Book Named TorRah The Torah () is the most valuable Holy Doctrine within Judaism,(and for muslims) revered as the first relenting Word of Ulllah, traditionally thought to have been revealed to Blessed Moosah, An Apostle of Ulllah. ... A modern Wimpel with the name obscured A wimpel (Yiddish: וומפעל, from German, cloth, derived from Old German, bewimfen, meaning to cover up or conceal [1]) is a long, linen sash used as a binding for the Sefer Torah by Jews of Germanic (Yekke) origin. ... (See also List of types of clothing) Introduction Humans often wear articles of clothing (also known as dress, garments or attire) on the body (for the alternative, see nudity). ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ... Image of a woman on the Pioneer plaque sent to outer space. ... For other uses of the word head, see head (disambiguation). ... A human neck. ... This article is about the part of the face. ... A cornette is a piece of female headwear that was especially popular in the 15th to 17th century. ... Chaucer redirects here. ... Canterbury Tales Woodcut 1484 The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the rest in verse). ... The Wife of Baths Tale is a tale from Geoffrey Chaucers The Canterbury Tales. ... A priory is an ecclesistical circonscription run by a prior. ... For other uses, see Nun (disambiguation). ... St. ...

In Middle English, the word was wymple, and anyone wearing one would be Ywympled, rather than wimpled. Middle English is the name given by historical linguistics to the diverse forms of the English language spoken between the Norman invasion of 1066 and the mid-to-late 15th century, when the Chancery Standard, a form of London-based English, began to become widespread, a process aided by the...

For pictures of the wimple, see:

• Gerard David, Adoration of the Magi - with Mary wearing a wimple
• Albrecht Dürer, Lamentation of Christ (detail) - women with wimples
• Roman Catholic Daughters of Charity sisters wearing starched wimples (cornette) (1950 photo)
• Roman Catholic Poor Clare Nuns wearing wimples (2006 photo)

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See also

• Babushka
• Hijab