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Webster 1913 Edition

Rimple

Rim′ple

,
Noun.
[AS.
hrimpele
, or
rimpel
. See Rumple.]
A fold or wrinkle. See
Rumple
.

Rim′ple

,
Verb.
T.
&
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Rimpled
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Rimpling
.]
To rumple; to wrinkle.

Webster 1828 Edition

Rimple

RIM'PLE

,
Noun.
A fold or wrinkle. [See rumple.]

RIM'PLE

,
Verb.
T.
To rumple; to wrinkle.

Definition 2024

rimple

rimple

English

Noun

rimple ‎(plural rimples)

  1. wrinkle

Related terms

Verb

rimple ‎(third-person singular simple present rimples, present participle rimpling, simple past and past participle rimpled)

  1. To wrinkle or crease
    • Georgette Heyer, My Lord John
      He smiled vaguely upon his hostess, and she smiled back at him, her face rimpling into a thousand furrows […]

Etymology

From Middle English rimpel, rympyl, from Old English *hrimpele, hrympelle ‎(“wrinkle, rimple”), from Proto-Germanic *hrumpiljǭ, related to Old English hrimpan ‎(“to wrinkle, rimple”), from Proto-Germanic *hrempaną ‎(“to bend, curve, make waves, wrinkle”).

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