Wimpleless

wimpel-leas, wimpleless, without wimple.

‘[…] If ye would be wimpleless, have warm capes—and, over them, black veils’.

If ye must be wimpleless, be provided with warm capes, and black veils over them.

7. Unhatted; Hatless; Without a Hat, Cap, or Head Covering,adj. From Sec. 2: unbonneted or bonnetless, uncapped or capless, uncoifed, uncowled, unhelmeted or unhelmed, unhooded or hoodless, unkerchiefed, unscarfed, unshawled, unturbaned or turbanless, unveiled or veilless, wimpleless; […]

The overall appearance of the paintings with their very rounded, foreshortened figures and relatively somber palette recalls the naïve portraiture of colonial America, with the Wife of Bath, in particular, riding sidesaddle and wimpleless, clad in demure navy blue with a Peter Pan collar, looking rather more like a pilgrim mother in the Massachusetts Bay Colony than the earthy veteran of the old dance that Chaucer describes.

Well, mayhap she would feel differently if she was as beauteous as Eadyth, with her luxurious silver-blond hair lying wimpleless about her shoulders under a gossamer-thin headrail of palest lavender, held in place by a gold circlet of twisted flowers.

One by one, alerted by sudden silence of the one next to her or nudged by another, the ladies all rushed to the gallery rail and looked down, gasped and were riveted to the apparition that dared enter court wimpleless and without an atour or reticulation upon her head.

There was a sharp rap on my door, and I turned to see a wimpleless Sister Bede bustling into my room.