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peplus
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun peplus has 1 sense
- peplus(n = noun.artifact) peplos, peplum - a garment worn by women in ancient Greece; cloth caught at the shoulders and draped in folds to the waist; Array is a kind of garment
CIDE DICTIONARY
peplus, n. [L., fr. Gr. pe`plos.].
- An upper garment worn by Grecian and Roman women. [1913 Webster]
- A kind of kerchief formerly worn by Englishwomen. Fairholt. [1913 Webster]
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