NOUN
- a short blouse with sleeves that is worn under a jumper or pinafore dress
- a piece of starched cloth covering the shoulders of a nun's habit
How To Use guimpe In A Sentence
- They were dressed in flowing black with starched white guimpe and wimples. CANTICLES • by K.C. Ball
- Bernardines – Benedictines of the Petit – Picpus wore the black guimpe, and the Benedictines of the Holy Sacrament and of the Rue Les Miserables
- A robe of serge with large sleeves, a large woollen veil, the guimpe which mounts to the chin cut square on the breast, the band which descends over their brow to their eyes, — this is their dress. Les Miserables
- One caught a glimpse of a black guimpe, and a form that was barely defined, covered with a black shroud. Les Miserables
- People supped well, and had at table a beautiful neighbor without a guimpe so that her throat was only moderately concealed. Les Miserables
- All the nuns at the convent wore plain blouses and skirts except for Sister Edgar, who had permission from the motherhouse to fit herself out in the old things with the arcane names, the wimple, cincture and guimpe. Underworld
- It landed right on top of the basket of wash, and lay wet and dirty on top of a ruffled guimpe of Dot's. Four Little Blossoms and Their Winter Fun
- Her guimpe was never sufficiently opaque, and never ascended sufficiently high. Les Miserables
