peplus

How to use peplus in a sentence

• The peplus was covered with embroidery worked by virgins of the noblest families in Athens.

  Stories of Old Greece and Rome | Emilie Kip Baker

• They also decreed that their images should be woven into the sacred peplus of Athena,297 with those of the gods.

  Plutarch's Lives, Volume IV | Aubrey Stewart

• But Vitelius burst forth again in unexpected laughter, and began to search for his ring in the peplus of Calvia Crispinilla.

  Quo Vadis | Henryk Sienkiewicz

• The dawn, casting light on her dark hair and white peplus, was reflected in her eyes.

  Quo Vadis | Henryk Sienkiewicz

• "He speaks pure truth, by the sacred peplus of Diana," cried Vestinius.

  Quo Vadis | Henryk Sienkiewicz