peplisht

An obsolete spelling of peoplish. peplos (pep'los), n. Same as peplum. 4383 peplum (pep'lum), n.; pl. pepla (-lä). peplus, tion or upper garment, in shape like a voluminous shawl, worn by women, thrown over one arm and thence wrapped in various ways, according to individual taste, around the body, sometimes even drawn over the head. The garment was so called particularly when of costly material and richly ornamented, as distinguished from the more ordinary himation. It was frequently ascribed to female di vinities, particularly to Athene, for whose statue in the temple of Athene Polias a ceremonial peplum was woven every year by the high-born maidens attached for the term to the person of the prieste . [L., also if from a In anc. Athene Polias (the " Minerva Medica") wearing the Peplum, in the Capitoline Museum, Rome.