rimple

American  

[rim-puhl] / ˈrɪm pəl /

noun

1. a wrinkle.

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verb (used with or without object)

rimpled, rimpling

1. to wrinkle; crumple; crease.

Etymology

Origin of rimple

1400–50; late Middle English; compare Middle Dutch, Middle Low German rimpel; akin to rumple

Example Sentences

And wan and pale and sad and grum, In crowds, dire woe revealing, Crept slowly past, with drooping eye, And forehead smooth now frowning rimple.

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Well might Mead be glad of his roving temperament, as on his watch we talked and smoked above the expanse of rimpled water, and looked towards the sword-like lightnings in the south.

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“I who am now but a wraith of this river, Forsaken of thee forever and ever, “Who then was thine image fair, forecast In the heart of the water rimpling past.

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Amusement touched her eyes and lips so charmingly that he thought of the sea at dawn, rimpled by the morning breeze, gay with the laughter of young sunlight.

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There was a crowd of them about his feet, their rimpling, iridescent necks and soft gray bosoms pushing and jostling against one another, and their pink feet actually touching his boots.

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