Pronounced: flat-FOOT-id, adj
Notes: I know some of the definitions; how many do you know?
Yesterday’s word
The word wimple means
- to cover with or as if with a wimple; to veil
- to ripple
- to follow a winding course; meander (mostly used in Scotland)
First usage
Our word came into English early; sometime before 1100.
Background / Comments
As probably most of us know, the noun wimple is a covering worn over the head and around the neck and chin; it was worm by women in medieval times, and (more famously) by nuns. It came from the Old Saxon word wimpal (veil; banner), which came from the Middle Dutch word wimpel (veil; banner). Poets and other writers used our word as a substitute for “ripple” (second definition above) and “meander” (third definition above) – often when writing about streams.
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