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is the rendering, in the A. V. at Isa_3:22, of the Heb. îַèַôִּäִç , mitpachach (from èָôִç , to spread out; Sept. translates undistinguishably; Vulg. linteamenta), which is translated “veil” in Luther 3:15, but it signifies rather a kind of shawl or mantle (Schroder, De Vestitu Mulier. Hebr. c. 16). The old English and now obsolete term means a kind of hood or veil in use at the time the translation was made, and was not a bad representative of the original. The word occurs in Spenser:
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And widow-like sad wimple thrown away.”
“But (she) the same did hide
Under a veil that wimpled was full low;
And over all a black stole she did throw,
As one that inly mourned.”