Gorget vs. Wimple

Gorget and Wimple Definitions
Gorget
A piece of armor protecting the throat.
Wimple
A cloth wound around the head, framing the face, and drawn into folds beneath the chin, worn by women in medieval times and as part of the habit of certain orders of nuns.
Gorget
A crescent-shaped badge derived from such a piece of armor, worn on the chest especially by military officers in the 1700s and early 1800s.
Wimple
A fold or pleat in cloth.
Gorget
An ornamental collar.
Wimple
A ripple, as on the surface of water.
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Gorget
The scarflike part of a wimple covering the neck and shoulders.
Wimple
A curve or bend.
Gorget
A band or patch of distinctive color on the throat of an animal, especially an area of brightly colored feathers on the throat of a bird.
Wimple
To cover with or dress in a wimple.
Gorget
(historical) A piece of armour protecting the throat and/or the upper part of the chest.
Wimple
To cause to form folds, pleats, or ripples.
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Gorget
(historical) A crescent-shaped ornamental metal plate suspended around the neck from the crescent's points by a length of chain or ribbon, used to indicate rank or authority and was worn as part of a dress military uniform by officers.
Wimple
(Archaic) To form or lie in folds.
Gorget
(historical) A type of women's clothing covering the neck and breast; a wimple.
Wimple
To ripple.
Gorget
An ornament for the neck; a necklace, ornamental collar, torque etc.
Wimple
A cloth which usually covers the head and is worn around the neck and chin. It was worn by women in medieval Europe and is still worn by nuns in certain orders.
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Gorget
(surgery) A cutting instrument used in lithotomy.
Wimple
A fold or pleat in cloth.
Gorget
A grooved instrument used in performing various operations; called also blunt gorget.
Wimple
A ripple, as on the surface of water.
Gorget
(zoology) A crescent-shaped coloured patch on the neck of a bird or mammal.
Wimple
A curve or bend.
Gorget
A hake caught in a net set for other fish.
Wimple
A flag or streamer.
Gorget
A piece of armor, whether of chain mail or of plate, defending the throat and upper part of the breast, and forming a part of the double breastplate of the 14th century.
Wimple
To cover with a wimple.
Gorget
A piece of plate armor covering the same parts and worn over the buff coat in the 17th century, and without other steel armor.
Unfix the gorget's iron clasp.
Wimple
To draw down; to lower, like a veil.
Gorget
A small ornamental plate, usually crescent-shaped, and of gilded copper, formerly hung around the neck of officers in full uniform in some modern armies.
Wimple
To cause to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to cause to ripple or undulate.
The wind wimples the surface of water.
Gorget
A ruff worn by women.
Wimple
To flutter.
Gorget
A cutting instrument used in lithotomy.
Wimple
A covering of silk, linen, or other material, for the neck and chin, formerly worn by women as an outdoor protection, and still retained in the dress of nuns.
Full seemly her wympel ipinched is.
For she had laid her mournful stole aside,And widowlike sad wimple thrown away.
Then Vivian rose,And from her brown-locked head the wimple throws.
Gorget
A crescent-shaped, colored patch on the neck of a bird or mammal.
Wimple
A flag or streamer.
Gorget
Armor plate that protects the neck
Wimple
To clothe with a wimple; to cover, as with a veil; hence, to hoodwink.
This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy.
Wimple
To draw down, as a veil; to lay in folds or plaits, as a veil.
Wimple
To cause to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to cause to ripple or undulate; as, the wind wimples the surface of water.
Wimple
To lie in folds; also, to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to ripple; to undulate.
For with a veil, that wimpled everywhere,Her head and face was hid.
With me through . . . meadows stray,Where wimpling waters make their way.
Wimple
Headdress of cloth; worn over the head and around the neck and ears by medieval women