rimpled, a. Now dial. or U.S.
(ˈrɪmp(ə)ld)
Also 5 rympled, -yd, 6 rimpeled.
[f. rimple n.]
Wrinkled, puckered; rippled.
| c 1400 Rom. Rose 4495 Ther is set to kepe, foule hir bi⁓falle! A rimpled vekke, fer ronne in age. 1426 Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 13336, I am ryht foul for to beholde; My chekys Rympled and ryht Olde. c 1450 Merlin 90 A man that semed right olde and rympled. 1590 P. Barrough Meth. Physick i. xv. (1639) 22 A bath of sweet water is good for him, if the body be dry and rimpled. 1597 A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 2 b/2 The navle..that which is rimpeled. 1759 Phil. Trans. LI. 39 The skin [was]..rimpled in two or three places, but not broken. 1829 Burtt in J. Paterson Contemporaries of Burns (1844) 175 We'll..smile at the moon's rimpled face in the wave. 1885 Cent. Mag. Mar. 681/2 A heavy rimpled mass of lemon⁓colored hair. |