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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a garment worn by women in ancient Greece; cloth caught at the shoulders and draped in folds to the waist;
[syn: peplos, peplus, peplum]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Peplus \Pep"lus\ (p[e^]p"l[u^]s), n. [L., fr. Gr. pe`plos.] 1. An upper garment worn by Grecian and Roman women. [1913 Webster] 2. A kind of kerchief formerly worn by Englishwomen. [Obs.] --Fairholt. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

peplus n 1: a garment worn by women in ancient Greece; cloth caught at the shoulders and draped in folds to the waist [syn: peplos, peplus, peplum]