peplum
- n a flared ruffle attached to the waistline of a dress or jacket or blouse
- n a garment worn by women in ancient Greece; cloth caught at the shoulders and draped in folds to the waist
- Hercules spawned perhaps a hundred peplum epics, so called for the short skirts the guys wore.
- The rubber workers liked the design, but added a penny's worth of peplum and made it 26.
- A peplum epic demands a little female skin, and 300 serves up a few glimpses of erect nipples, a few tableaux of women (and the odd hermaphrodite) in perfunctory writhing.