Wimple

The guimpe (French [ gɛp ] ) (also: pennant, case, or in other notation gimp ) refers to the final round or square-cut chest cloth when Habit of nuns and sisters. The guimpe can, for example, a turn-down collar leinernen above or below the tunic of the Habits exist. In some French Habits breast tissue is similar to cut the Geneva bands of Abbés.

Various forms of guimpe

The hl. Bernadette Soubirous on his death bed, putting on the habit and the breast tissue of the Sisters of Charity of Nevers

Vincentians, Henriette Browne (1859 )

Sisters 1957

Benedictines in Seville