peplus
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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
Peitho, the goddess of persuasion, sits by her side, as appears from the crown on her head and from the many-folded peplus falling over her back.
From Greek Women by Carroll, Mitchell
Maidens of the first families were selected to embroider the sacred peplus.
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
Array a rotten olive trunk in the peplus of a woman, and Vinicius will declare it beautiful.
From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Curtin, Jeremiah
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