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

• The billowing roof of the chapel at Ronchamp resembles a nun's wimple; the studios of the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard push out of the building like huge cellos.
• While 25 nuns stirred in the red-cushioned seats of the Supreme Court chamber, a tall, bespectacled woman in the black cloak, black veil and white wimple of a Dominican, swished .
• The hijab worn by traditional Muslim women might have people talking, but it's the wimple that really turns heads.

News & Articles

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• Mother Dolores Hart, actress turned nun, on Elvis, and Jesus, and I
  When the artist formerly known as Dolores Hart attended the Academy Awards in 2012, it was her third time on the red carpet and the first time she didn't fret about what to wear. She wore black - her nun's habit, a crisp white wimple framing her radiant face.
  July 28, 2013 - Philly.com

Quotes

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• David Mirvish in Vancouver Sun
  Co-producer David Mirvish said MacKenzie is just what the production was looking for -- "a girl who climbs a tree and scrapes her knee, and has curlers under her wimple in the abbey."