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- noun Plural form of
peplum .
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Examples
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You learn a lot of these techniques from the older patterns from the 80's and early 90's, which had all kinds of details such as peplums and bows and flounces.
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Therefore, some fashion bloggers are picking up their peplums from thrift and vintage stores, while others are buying this season's pieces.
Wendy Brandes: 'Tis the Season for Peplums Wendy Brandes 2011
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Blogger Cara of Cara's Closet bought a peplum dress for $5 in a consignment store and wore it to a wedding, where she discovered a practical advantage: "Turns out peplums are a great way for disguising 'food babies,'" she told me.
Wendy Brandes: 'Tis the Season for Peplums Wendy Brandes 2011
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See how fashion bloggers wear peplums in this slideshow.
Wendy Brandes: 'Tis the Season for Peplums Wendy Brandes 2011
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Yep, big adn stiff oar big adn floofee hare hare hare wuz stiff adn close wuz big adn floofee wif showder pads adn dubbel brests adn peplums….
Eberybudy wants to picks me up - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Bay of Blood- The Evil Eye- considered to be the first giallo- Black Sunday- the Art Horror film- Danger Diabolik- comic book action thriller, he was cameraman on the most successful peplums- Hercules and Hercules Unchained- An incredible talent.
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They all believed passionately in "movements" and "causes" and "ideals," and were always attended by the exponents of their latest beliefs, always asking you to hear lectures by haggard women in peplums, and having their portraits painted by wild people who never turned out to be the fashion.
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"Just because they go to it in overalls and gingham aprons, instead of peplums and sandals."
The Brimming Cup Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918
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They wore tin helmets, much too large, and green peplums, and repeated his words continually.
Vandover and the Brute Frank Norris 1886
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Has not Tite Street been thrilled with the tidings that the models of Chelsea were posing to the master, in peplums, for pastels?
Miscellanies Oscar Wilde 1877
cryptofascistbbq commented on the word peplums
Noun
pl -lums or -la a flared ruffle attached to the waist of a garment (Greek peplos shawl)
May 14, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word peplums
Plural of peplum.
May 14, 2009