- a variation of peplos.
peplus
Americannoun
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pepluses
plural
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And thus in beneath the massy pediment, in through the wide-flung doors, floated the peplus, while under its guardian shadow walked Hermione.
From A Victor of Salamis by Davis, William Stearns
The method of wearing this garment, with the use it is at other times put to as bed-covering, makes it probable that it is similar to if not identical with the peplus of the ancients.
From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century by Benett, Léon
Up the street on a car shaped like a galley moved the peplus, the great robe of the sovran goddess.
From A Victor of Salamis by Davis, William Stearns
No interruption of this constant intimacy occurred, until Philothea was appointed one of the Canephoræ, whose duty it was to embroider the sacred peplus, and to carry baskets in the grand procession of the Panathenæa.
From Philothea A Grecian Romance by Child, Lydia Maria Francis
Maidens of the first families were selected to embroider the sacred peplus.
From Philothea A Grecian Romance by Child, Lydia Maria Francis
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