Definition of peplos in English:
peplos
nounPlural peploses ˈpɛplɒs
A rich outer robe or shawl worn by women in ancient Greece, hanging in loose folds and sometimes drawn over the head.
Example sentencesExamples
- I stepped on her peplos so she wouldn't be able to pull herself up and run away.
- She began to fidget, clutching her peplos and grasping it tightly until her knuckles turned white.
- I wrapped a himation around myself and dressed in a peplos.
- Picking up the skirts of her peplos, she ran towards me.
- I dried myself the best I could and was hesitant to wrap myself in the peplos and then the himation and finally the veil.
- The long blonde curls piled high on her head with glorious cascades of golden silk falling against the top of her classical Greek peplos.
- 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.
- Here the goddess wears her high-crested helmet, and a himation replaces her aegis over the peplos.
- Her arms were scraped, her himation had torn off, and her peplos was tearing.
- Her himation is pulled up over her head, and covers much of her peplos, which is decorated with a dotted lozenge.
- I was about to stop her when she dropped her peplos.
- I was still dressed in my peplos and himation but they were soiled.
- I felt his tears through the thin linen of my peplos.
- I cried, cursing the skirts of the peplos as I ran.
- I shrugged off the peplos on my right shoulder.
- Putting the peplos on the talisman was an act of simple magic.
- So expert advice was available to Durer on how to adapt the astronomical devices from Geometry's peplos to more contemporary interests.
- I pulled off my peplos angrily and threw it aside.
- I dressed in my favorite blue peplos with a belt of gold rope.
- Clad in the white peplos of a Greek goddess and elegantly coiffed, she gazes unemotional and aloof at the grisly head on her platter.