wimple vs headgear

wimple and headgear both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
wimple	Yes	No	No	No
headgear	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, headgear is a hypernym of wimple; that is, headgear is a word with a broader meaning than wimple:

wimple: headdress of cloth; worn over the head and around the neck and ears by medieval women
headgear: clothing for the head

Other hypernyms of wimple include headdress.

wimple (noun)	headgear (noun)
headdress of cloth; worn over the head and around the neck and ears by medieval women	clothing for the head
	stable gear consisting of any part of a harness that fits about the horse's head
	the hoist at the pithead of a mine