an old English word for hood or veil, used in the Authorized Version of (Isaiah 3:22) The same Hebrew word is translated "veil" in (Ruth 3:15) but it signifies rather a kind of shawl of mantle.
·noun A flag or streamer. II. Wimple ·vt To draw down, as a veil; to lay in folds or plaits, as a v...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Isa. 3:22, (R.V., "shawls"), a wrap or veil. The same Hebrew word is rendered "vail" (R.V., "mantle"...
Easton's Bible Dictionary