peplos, peplus, peplum
(noun) a garment worn by women in ancient Greece; cloth caught at the shoulders and draped in folds to the waist
Source: WordNet® 3.1
peplus (plural pepluses or pepli)
(obsolete) An upper garment worn by women in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.
(dated) A kind of kerchief formerly worn by women in England.
• Supple, supple
Source: Wiktionary
Pep"lus, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr.
1. An upper garment worn by Grecian and Roman women.
2. A kind of kerchief formerly worn by Englishwomen. [Obs.] Fairholt.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 February 2025
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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
