Peplus (Noun)
Meaning
A garment worn by women in ancient Greece; cloth caught at the shoulders and draped in folds to the waist.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- In ancient Greece, the peplos was a traditional garment worn by women for both everyday life and ceremonial purposes.
- Athenian women were known for wearing their hair loose while donning the elegant peplos for festivals and processions.
- She expertly pleated and folded the fabric, crafting a peplos with the distinctive Hellenic drapery and soft, curved lines.
- Ancient texts and art reveal the complexity and detail with which women draped the peplos to frame the shoulders and cover the bust.
- Within this storied dress form of peplos rested deeply entwined significations ranging from mundane rituals of spinning yarn, a socially ideal for most citizens in contemporary Ancient Hellenes community life