亚洲网紅露点

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peplos

or 辫别辫路濒耻蝉

[ pep-luhs ]

noun

plural peploses.
  1. a loose-fitting outer garment worn, draped in folds, by women in ancient Greece.


peplos

/ 藞辫蓻辫濒蓹蝉 /

noun

  1. (in ancient Greece) the top part of a woman's attire, caught at the shoulders and hanging in folds to the waist Also calledpeplum
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 辫别辫路濒辞蝉别诲 [pep, -l, uh, st], adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of peplos1

First recorded in 1770鈥80, peplos is from the Greek word 辫茅辫濒辞蝉 (masculine)
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of peplos1

C18: from Greek, of obscure origin
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Example Sentences

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This year, Chiuri printed the peplos with the title of a crucial work of social criticism鈥擝ernard Rudofsky鈥檚 鈥淎re Clothes Modern?鈥濃攊n a typeface inspired by the cloth cover of its first edition, from 1947.

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Nor would the difficulty be solved if this could be ascertained, as we do not know what ceremonies were performed when the peplos arrived.

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

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At Athens, two maidens chosen in their seventh year, who carried the peplos, and other holy things, 峒勧郡峥ノ废勎, of Pallas in the Scirrophoria.

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Over the eastern doorway were twelve noble sitting figures on either side of the officiating priest, presenting the state robe, or peplos, for the vestment of Athene.

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