Entry: dewimpled (adj.)
In context: "Lyle, a dewimpled Carmelite who works the kitchen day-shift, occasionally Mario Incandenza, and many times Avril herself take up most of the psychic slack, for practical purposes, among E.T.A.s in the know.:
Definition: A neologism. I've previously included wimples, and wimpled (adj.) is: Enveloped in or wearing a wimple; hence, veiled, occas. blindfolded.
So dewimpled must be the removal or absence of a wimple?
Other:
SNOOT score: 1
Page: 437
Source: Oxford English Dictionary
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