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Peplus   Listen
noun
Peplus  n.  
1.
An upper garment worn by Grecian and Roman women.
2.
A kind of kerchief formerly worn by Englishwomen. (Obs.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Peplus" Quotes from Famous Books



... the waist of Scylla, and Athena takes Scylla for her helmet-crest; while yet her beneficent and essential power on the ocean, in making navigation possible, is commemorated in the Panathenaic festival by her peplus being carried to the Erechtheum suspended from the mast ...
— The Queen of the Air • John Ruskin



Words linked to "Peplus" :   peplum, peplos, garment



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