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medieval headgear that hid your neck and announced you'd opted out of the dating pool
means A cloth headdress worn around the head, neck, and chin, historically by women and still by some nuns.
from From Old English 'wimpel,' a covering for the head and neck, with cousins across the Germanic family — Old High German 'wimpal' and the Dutch 'wimpel,' a pennant or streamer. The thread connecting them seems to be the idea of a fluttering or wrapping cloth, which is why a 'wimple' draped a face and a related word came to mean a flag on a pole.
- peak era
- Standard female fashion across 12th-14th century Europe
- holy holdout
- Survived as nun habits long after fashion moved on
- verb form
- To wimple means to cover, fold, or ripple
- neck rule
- Exposed throat was scandalous; this fixed that
the wimple of nuns — catholic religious garment worn since medieval times, still used by some orders today
medieval wimple in portraits — 14th-15th century headdress visible in paintings by jan van eyck and other flemish masters