peplos

American  

[pep-luhs] / ˈpɛp ləs /

Or peplus

noun

plural

peploses

1. a loose-fitting outer garment worn, draped in folds, by women in ancient Greece.

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peplos British  

/ ˈpɛpləs /

noun

1. Also called: peplum.  (in ancient Greece) the top part of a woman's attire, caught at the shoulders and hanging in folds to the waist

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Other Word Forms

• peplosed adjective

Etymology

Origin of peplos

First recorded in 1770–80, peplos is from the Greek word péplos (masculine)

Example Sentences

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

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

On the birthday of the Goddess the procession which conveyed the peplos to her temple assembled in the outer Cerameicos, and passed through the lower city round the Acropolis, which it ascended through the Propyl�a.

From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.

Agar, in peplos and cothurnus, recited the strophes once more.

From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.

The peplos of Athen� was a woven mantle renewed every four years.

From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.