Peplum vs Chiton - What's the difference?
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A peplos, an Ancient Greek garment formed of a tubular piece of cloth, which is folded back upon itself halfway down, until the top of the tube is worn around the waist, and the bottom covers the legs down to the ankles; the open top is then worn over the shoulders, and draped, in folds, down to the waist; compare the Roman palla .
A veil.
A genre of Italian film featuring historical or biblical epics
An individual film in this genre
A loose, woolen tunic, worn by both men and women in Ancient Greece.
* 1992 , Donna Tartt, The Secret History ,
* 1998 , Colette Susan Czapski, NM238: A Hellenistic Statue and Its Archaistic Support'', Kim J. Hartswick, Mary Carol Sturgeon (editors), ''Stephanos: Studies in Honor of Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway ,
* 2002 , Nikolaos Kaltsas (editor), Sculpture in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens ,
Any of various rock-clinging marine molluscs of the class Polyplacophora, including the genus Chiton .
* 1969 , Sam Hinton, Seashore Life of Southern California ,
* 1979 , R. McNeill Alexander, The Invertebrates ,
* 1996 , Paul Henson, The Natural History of Big Sur ,
Chiton is a coordinate term of peplum.
As nouns the difference between peplum and chiton
is that peplum is a peplos, an Ancient Greek garment formed of a tubular piece of cloth, which is folded back upon itself halfway down, until the top of the tube is worn around the waist, and the bottom covers the legs down to the ankles; the open top is then worn over the shoulders, and draped, in folds, down to the waist; compare the Roman palla while chiton is a loose, woolen tunic, worn by both men and women in Ancient Greece.peplum
English
Noun
(wikipedia peplum) (peplums)Quotations
*1837 : Ralph Cudworth, D. D., The True Intellectual System of the Universe (First American Edition, with references and an ccount of the author by Thomas Birch, M. A. F. R. S.) *:And this was Neith, or Athena, that God thus described, "I am all that was, is, and shall be, and my peplum''' or veil, no mortal could ever uncover." [...] '''Peplum is properly a womanish pall or veil, embroidered all over and consecrated to Minerva. *1838 : The North American Review , volume XLVII *:The outer garment was called the ''peplum'' , and was used more for occasions of ceremony than for ordinary convenience, as it was very long and ample, and, from the manner of putting it on, must have been inconvenient to the wearer. It was sometimes wound double round the body, ... *1904 : G. Woolliscroft Rhead, The Treatment of Drapery in Art *:Over this they adopted the Greek peplum''', under the name of ''palla''. This garment, however, was exclusively confined to the gentler sex, and was never worn, as was the '''peplum among the Greeks, by men.Noun
(pepla)Synonyms
*(film genre) sword-and-sandalSee also
* *peplos *palla *exomis *himation *chlamys *chitonchiton
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- On the night of our first attempt, we simply overdrank and passed out in our chitons in the woods near Francis’s house.
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- She wears a diaphanous himation that covers her torso, over a floor-length chiton of heavier fabric.
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- She wears a chiton and himation, using both hands to hold the edge of the latter, in which she has gathered apples.
See also
*Coordinate terms
(other Ancient Greek costume) * chlamys * exomis * himation * palla * peplum, peplos * togaReferences
*American Heritage Dictionary (fourth edition, 2000) entry on the chiton
Etymology 2
From . See .Noun
(en noun)page 72,
- In the giant chiton , Cryptochiton , this girdle has expanded so as to completely cover the plates.
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- The chiton (Fig. 14.1 a ) is depressed (dorso-ventrally flattened), with a large foot which has a flat sole.
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- The bright orange gumboot chiton (Cryptochiton stelleri ) is the largest in the world.
