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Word of the Day for Monday, September 9, 2013

peplum \PEP-luhm\, noun:

1. a short full flounce or an extension of a garment below the waist, covering the hips.
2. a short skirt attached to a bodice or jacket.
3. Obsolete. a peplos.

It had a straight skirt and a peplum on the jacket and, truly, it seemed to have been made for me.
-- Jodi Picoult, Harvesting the Heart, 1995

Kathleen is wearing what she went out in the night before, a green peplum jacket over a swingy skirt.
-- Elinor Lipman, The Ladies' Man, 1998

Peplum is derived from the word of Greek origin peplos which refers to a loose-fitting garment worn by women in Ancient Greece.

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