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‖ peplos, peplus|ˈpɛplɒs, -əs|
[a. Gr. πέπλος, in pl. πέπλα, whence L. peplus, peplum.]
An outer robe or shawl worn by women in ancient Greece, usually of rich material and design, hanging in loose folds and sometimes drawn over the head; spec. that woven yearly for the statue of the goddess Athene at Athens, embroidered with mythological subjects, and carried in procession to her temple at the greater Panathenæa.
1776R. Chandler Trav. Greece xx. 102 The procession of the Greater Panathenæa attended a peplus or garment, designed as an offering to Minerva Polias. 1850J. Leitch tr. C. O. Müller's Anc. Art §340 (ed. 2) 405 The Peplos, which was very much worn in early times..is recognised with certainty, in the statues of Pallas in the early style. 1875Browning Aristoph. Apol. 4827 O child, put from thine eyes The peplos, throw it off, show face to sun!
Hence ˈpeplosed |-ɒst| a. (nonce-wd.), clothed with the peplos.
1875Browning Aristoph. Apol. 171 Peplosed and Kothorned let Athenai fall! |