wimple

v. cover with nun's headcovering; fold; move in waves

n. nun's headdress; headcovering made of folds of cloth

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.
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Noun
1. headdress of cloth; worn over the head and around the neck and ears by medieval women
(hypernym) headdress, headgear

(v. t.)
To draw down, as a veil; to lay in folds or plaits, as a veil.
  

(v. t.)
To clothe with a wimple; to cover, as with a veil; hence, to hoodwink.
  

(v. t.)
To cause to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to cause to ripple or undulate; as, the wind wimples the surface of water.
  

(v. i.)
To lie in folds; also, to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to ripple; to undulate.
  

(n.)
A flag or streamer.
  

(n.)
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.
  

an old English word for hood or veil, used in the Authorized Version of (Isaiah 3:22) The same Hebrew word is translated "veil" in (Ruth 3:15) but it signifies rather a kind of shawl of mantle.