Peplus, pepli, m. g. vel Peplum pepli. Virg.An imbrodered vesture or maner of hoode to couer the heade. It is nowe vsed for a kerchief, worne especially as women do going to church.Peplum fluentium alligare. Claud. Pepo. pepônis, pen. cor. masc. gen. Plin. A kinde of Melons called Pompones.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
pēplum, i, n., and pēplus, i, m., = pe/plon and pe/plos, the robe of state of Minerva at Athens, with which her statue was solemnly invested every five years at the Panathenaea, Plaut. Merc. prol. 67; id. Fragm. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 1, 480; Verg. Cir. 21 sq.; Stat. Th. 10, 56.—II.Transf.A.A splendid upper garment, a robe of state, either of gods or men (post-class.), Claud. Nupt. Honor. 123: imperatorium, Treb. XXX. Tyrann. 23.—B. Still more gen., any broad upper garment, Manil. 5, 387.—C.A disease of the eye (by which the eye is covered or veiled, as it were), Ser. Samm. 13, 220 (al. plumbum).