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wimple

Scot a curve or bend, as in a river
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"However, with the opportunity of Fantastic Beasts and all that it entails, it became clear that it was time to hang up Sister Winifred's wimple and move on to the next adventure."
"If I remember correctly, they had trouble running that program when they were getting the tipping fees," Wimple said.
The cylinder wheezed round and the voice faded, only to sound again a few yards to the right, where the face of an elderly nun in a black wimple had appeared through the forbidding gates to their enclosed area.
You just smile" - Actress Jenny Agutter on the wimple she has to wear in her role as a nun in hit TV drama Call The Midwife.
Miss Winifred Wimple's hoplophobia rarely lasts through Media Day at the Range, an event held the day before SHOT Show, where members of the media get to shoot the latest guns and burn tons of free ammo.
In addition 'Lizzie has a history of misunderstandings, but the latest one is bad enough to get her expelled from Our Lady of the Sacred Wimple College.
With her long serge habit, make-up-free face and closely cropped hair hidden by a traditional wimple, she appears indistinguishable from her fellow Benedictine nuns.
Over the broken promises of the day, the nun Spreads out her wimple and starry cape.
TOUGH: Clara rejects her old way of life I'LL KEEP IT WIMPLE Catherine's set to swap world of fashion for a life of prayer BEFORE: Catherine as model
She next appeared for the hugely popular Love Game in a white plastic wimple and moulded plastic dress, cue also some X-rated dancing.
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