rimple
verbEtymology From Middle English rimpel, rympyl, from Old English *hrimpele, hrympelle (“wrinkle, rimple”), from Proto-Germanic *hrumpiljǭ, related to Old English ġehrimpan (“to wrinkle, rimple”), from Proto-Germanic *hrimpaną (“to bend, curve, make waves, wrinkle”).
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US To wrinkle or crease.
- 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.1791, Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest, Penguin, published 1999, page 261:
- He smiled vaguely upon his hostess, and she smiled back at him, her face rimpling into a thousand furrows […]1975, Georgette Heyer, My Lord John: