wimpleless

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

1944, Francis D[arwin] S[wift] Darwin, transl., The English Mediaeval Recluse, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 36

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

1948, Roger Sherman Loomis, Rudolph Willard, transl., Medieval English Verse and Prose in Modernized Versions, New York, N.Y.: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., page 51

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; […]

[1958, Norman Lewis, The Comprehensive Word Guide, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, page 570, column 2

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.

1993, The Chaucer Review, volume 27, page 299

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.

1999, Sandra Hill, The Bewitched Viking, New York, N.Y.: Love Spell, Dorchester Publishing Co., Inc., →ISBN, page 80