different between peplum vs chiton

English

Noun

peplum (plural peplums or pepla)

1. (historical) A peplos, an Ancient Greek garment formed of a tubular piece of cloth folded back upon itself halfway down so that 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.
2. A veil.

Quotations

• 1837: Ralph Cudworth, D. D., The True Intellectual System of the Universe (First American Edition, with references and an account 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

peplum (plural peplums or pepla)

1. (uncountable) A genre of Italian films based on historical or biblical epics.
2. (countable) An individual film in this genre.
   • 2006, Pierluigi on Cinema

     […] there were hastily produced B movies, such as the peplums, the spaghetti westerns, the detective stories, the horrors.

   • 2013, Bryan Senn, The Most Dangerous Cinema: People Hunting People on Film

     While it does offer a lighter tone than most peplums, and spotlights a hero who relies more on his wits than his biceps […]

Synonyms

• (film genre): sword-and-sandal

See also

• Wikipedia article on the palla
• peplos
• palla
• exomis
• himation
• chlamys
• chiton

Spanish

Noun

peplum m (plural peplums)

1. peplum

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ka?tn?/, /?ka?t?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ka?tn?/, /?ka?t?n/
• Rhymes: -a?t?n

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ????? (khit?n, “tunic”), from a Central Semitic *kittan, from the Akkadian ???????? (kitû, literally “flax, linen”), from Sumerian ???????? (kitû [GIŠ.GADA])

Noun

chiton (plural chitons or chitones)

1. (historical) A loose woolen tunic worn by men and women in Ancient Greece.
   • 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, page 53,

     She wears a diaphanous himation that covers her torso, over a floor-length chiton of heavier fabric.

Coordinate terms

Translations

See also

• Chiton (costume) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• American Heritage Dictionary (fourth edition, 2000) entry on the chiton

Etymology 2

From New Latin chiton. See above.

Noun

chiton (plural chitons)

1. Any of various rock-clinging marine molluscs of the class Polyplacophora, including the genus Chiton.

Synonyms

• (mollusc): coat-of-mail shell, loricate, polyplacophoran, polyplacophore, sea cradle

Translations

See also

• chiton on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ONCHIT

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xi.t?n/
• Hyphenation: chi?ton

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (khit?n).

Noun

chiton m (plural chitons)

1. chiton (Greek tunic)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (khit?n).

Noun

chiton m (plural chitons or chitonen)

1. chiton (mollusc of the class Polyplacophora)

   Synonym: keverslak