Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
peplum .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An upper garment worn by Grecian and Roman women.
- noun obsolete A kind of kerchief formerly worn by Englishwomen.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete An
upper garment worn by women inAncient Greece andAncient Rome . - noun dated A kind of
kerchief formerly worn by women inEngland .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a garment worn by women in ancient Greece; cloth caught at the shoulders and draped in folds to the waist
Etymologies
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Examples
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Euphorbia peplus, generally called milk weed in Oz (but a different plant to what the Euros and Americans call milk weed), is supposed to be great for sunspots and some kinds of carcinoma.
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And if by these means he be freed from the pain, it is enough; but if not, give him the white meconium (Euphorbia peplus?), or, if not it, any other phlegmagogue medicine.
On Fistulae 2007
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That's to thank me for the peplus I offered to her; good.
The Knights 2000
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Let us sing the glory of our forefathers; ever victors, both on land and sea, they merit that Athens, rendered famous by these, her worthy sons, should write their deeds upon the sacred peplus.
The Knights 2000
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But what god shall be its patron? for whom shall we weave the peplus?
The Birds 2000
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Panathenaic procession which once every four years wound up the hill, bearing the sacred peplus to the temple of the goddess.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various
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[77] At the Panathenaea, a festival held every fourth year, a peplus, or sail, was carried with pomp to the Acropolis.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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The heroine, who wore her gown as though it were a Greek peplus, with arm uplifted, and head lowered, was nothing else but Antigone, and she smiled with a smile of eternal sacrifice, carefully modulating the lower notes of her beautiful contralto voice.
Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House Romain Rolland 1905
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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.
A Victor of Salamis William Stearns Davis 1903
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After her came the makers of the peplus, and Hermione rejoined her husband.
A Victor of Salamis William Stearns Davis 1903
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