peplus

American  

[pep-luhs] / ˈpɛp ləs /

noun

plural

pepluses

1. a variant of peplos.

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Example Sentences

Other maidens resided for a time on the Acropolis, engaged in weaving the saffron-colored peplus which was to be presented to the goddess at the Great Panathen�a--the most brilliant festival of the Athenians.

From Greek Women by Carroll, Mitchell

The pr�torians are stubbornly attached to Caligula, because forsooth he wore miniature boots like theirs when he tumbled about in the peplus of an infant.

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth

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

The women wore only one outer garment, the peplus, brought to Hellas from Asia by the Aryans, which garment the Dorian women continued to wear until a late period.

From Greek Women by Carroll, Mitchell

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