A wimple is the white part of an old-style nun’s headdress, the cloth that frames her face, goes under her chin in folds and covers her neck, while the veil goes over the top of her head. For a few hundred years it was ordinary dress for women all over Europe, and if it looks like a convent thing to us now, that is because the convents went on with it after everyone else had stopped. Eleanor of Aquitaine on…

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