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peplos

/pep-luhs/US // ˈpɛp ləs //UK // (ˈpɛpləs) //

赘肉,肩带裤,坎肩,肩带

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural pep·los·es.

    • : a loose-fitting outer garment worn, draped in folds, by women in ancient Greece.

Examples

  • His name and that of his father, Antigonus, were woven into the sacred peplos.

  • The new peplos was carried to the temple, floating like a flag, in procession through the city.

  • On another Panathenaic vase she has a gown bordered with fighting men, evidently the sacred peplos.

  • Charmion bowed her head, and, turning, wrapped her dark-hued peplos round her.

  • Her flowered muslin peplos hung limply pleated around her shapely body in a succession of thin folds, which blew open and shut.