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語源

From Middle English rimpel, rympyl, from 古期英語 *hrimpele, hrympelle (“wrinkle, rimple”), from Proto-Germanic *hrumpiljǭ, related to 古期英語 hrimpan (“to wrinkle, rimple”), from Proto-Germanic *hrimpaną (“to bend, curve, make waves, wrinkle”).

発音

• 韻: -ɪmpəl

名詞

rimple (複数形 rimples)

1. A wrinkle. [from 10th c.]

関連する語

• ramp
• ripple
• rumple

動詞

rimple (三人称単数 現在形 rimples, 現在分詞 rimpling, 過去形および過去分詞形 rimpled)

1. (now chiefly US) To wrinkle or crease. [from 15th c.]
   • 1791, Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest, Penguin 1999, p. 261:

     The evening was fine, and the air so still, that it scarcely waved the light leaves of the trees around, or rimpled the broad expanse of the waters below.

   • 1975, Georgette Heyer, My Lord John

     He smiled vaguely upon his hostess, and she smiled back at him, her face rimpling into a thousand furrows […]

アナグラム

• limper, per mil, prelim, rempli