peplums
- plural of peplum.
Example Sentences
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Perhaps they’d leave Siriano’s oversize peplums and his spare enlarged shoulders at home.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2024
The finesse of the styles - such in as architectural peplums and wide, full skirts - show they clearly deserve to be taken seriously as a couture house.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 29, 2015
Tulle bursts escaped from the seams of full skirts and the peplums of neat jackets.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2014
There were knife pleats and asymmetrical peplums on dresses above the knee and a long skirt in a muted smudge print of pink and teal.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2012
I was alive when women wore those ridiculous clothes with the big shoulder pads and the nipped-in waists, with peplums over their bums like backward aprons.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
