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

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rimple rimpled rimpling

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.

From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den

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.

From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Blunden, Edmund

While she waved her sun-browned hand holding the cherries aloft, the breeze blowing fresh from the southwest tossed her hair so that some loose strands shone like rimpled flames.

From Alice of Old Vincennes by Thompson, Maurice

Alice looked charmingly forlorn peeping out of the wraps in which she was bundled against the cold, her hair fluffed and rimpled in shining disorder around her face.

From Alice of Old Vincennes by Thompson, Maurice

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.

From The Day of Days An Extravaganza by Brown, Arthur William

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.

From The Iron Woman by Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell

“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.

From Behind the Arras A Book of the Unseen by Meteyard, Thomas Buford