whimples

Updated: May 5, 2025

Here and there among the moving throng of dark jerkins and of white surcoats were scattered dashes of scarlet and blue, the whimples or shawls of the women.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The White Company

Those people with her are the Whimples, very old acquaintances of mine; they're always having trouble, poor things." "Trouble is not one of those fancies you can take up and drop at any moment; it's like a grouse-moor or the opium-habit once you start it you've got to keep it up."

Saki - Reginald