peplos
/pep-luhs/US // ˈpɛp ləs //UK // (ˈpɛpləs) //
赘肉,肩带裤,坎肩,肩带
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 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.
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