Topic: CLOTHES
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| Date: | 1300-1400 |
| Origin: | wrinkled 'twisted, winding' (14-16 centuries), probably from Old English gewrinclian 'to wind' |
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wrin‧kle1
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[countable]1DCB wrinkles are lines on your face and skin that you get when you are old : 
Her face was a mass of wrinkles.
Her face was a mass of wrinkles.2DCC a small untidy fold in a piece of clothing or paper [= crease]: She walked over to the bed and smoothed out the wrinkles.
She walked over to the bed and smoothed out the wrinkles. —wrinkly adjective: her thin, wrinkly face
her thin, wrinkly face