noun
- plural of peplum: short flared, gathered, or pleated strips of fabric attached at the waistline of a blouse, jacket, or dress
Usage: fashion
Examples
- The designer added pepluses to several dresses in the spring collection.
- Fashion magazines featured jackets with dramatic pepluses this season.
- She preferred simple silhouettes without pepluses or other embellishments.
- The vintage dress had delicate lace pepluses at the waist.
- Modern pepluses are often more structured than their historical counterparts.