peplos
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Origin of peplos
First recorded in 1770–80, peplos is from the Greek word péplos (masculine)
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The artistic director at Christian Dior, Maria Grazia Chiuri, opened her couture show with a simple white dress resembling the peplos of classical Greece: a rectangle of cloth draped to make a flowing column.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 11, 2019
This year, Chiuri printed the peplos with the title of a crucial work of social criticism—Bernard Rudofsky’s “Are Clothes Modern?”—in a typeface inspired by the cloth cover of its first edition, from 1947.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 11, 2019
At Athens, two maidens chosen in their seventh year, who carried the peplos, and other holy things, ἄῤῥητα, of Pallas in the Scirrophoria.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
Over the eastern doorway were twelve noble sitting figures on either side of the officiating priest, presenting the state robe, or peplos, for the vestment of Athene.
From Rambles and Studies in Greece by Mahaffy, J. P.
Her muslin peplos woven with gold flowers fell from her.
From The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt by Couperus, Louis
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