peplos in English

noun
1
a rich outer robe or shawl worn by women in ancient Greece, hanging in loose folds and sometimes drawn over the head.
Women of Athens wove the peplos or robe to be presented to the statue of Athena Polias on the Acropolis, embroidered with a scene of the battle with the Giants.
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1. Peplos is a coordinate term of Chiton

2. The Caryatids are statues of young women clad in peplos

3. The diversity of women’s apparel in ancient Greece can be reduced to three general garment types: the Chiton, the peplos, and the himation

4. According to Herodotus, popular legend was that Athenian women began to wear the Chiton as opposed to the peplos after several women stabbed a messenger to death with the

5. As nouns the difference between peplos and Chiton is that peplos is an ancient greek garment, worn by women, formed of a tubular piece of cloth, which is folded back upon itself halfway down, until the top of the tube is worn around the waist, and the bottom covers the legs down to the ankles; the open top is then worn over