A peplum is a short flounce added to the waist of a dress or jacket.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930] Reference

This site spells 'peplum' at least two different ways, and talks about flounces "ascending down dress back.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Just two questions (okay, maybe three) - A Dress A Day] Reference

A peplum forms a small ruffle around the hips. back.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930] Reference

The same goes for my 1990s peplum jackets from Thierry Mugler.    From Wordnik.com.  [Achieving Timeless Fashion] Reference

I wore that 1940s two piece peplum suit when I married your dad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Penny at Antique Dollhouse of Patterns - A Dress A Day] Reference

Female flight attendants wear retro pillbox hats and peplum jackets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tiny Airline Flies Circles Around Rivals] Reference

If I did sew it, I would alter the peplum, which I find rather boxy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vogue 8281] Reference

Her dark hair fell in ringlets over a scarlet peplum with slashed sleeves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herodias] Reference

I modified the skirt into a peplum and designed those bell sleeves myself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The usual: sewing and books.] Reference

There were also shirt dresses, peplum blazers, Georgette tees and Crepe dresses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Hall: New York Fashion Week DKNY Spring 2011 Collection: Big Apple of My Eye] Reference

It had a keyhole neckline and peplum and was accented with hand-sewn gold sequins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Book Excerpt: ‘Love, Loss, and What I Wore’] Reference

I like the gray dress with the removeable peplum; can totally see myself wearing it.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Week's Pattern Story - A Dress A Day] Reference

Michael D narrowly escapes, he'd better thank his lucky stars for that avocado peplum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking: Project Runway Episode 6, "You Can Totally Wear That Again"] Reference

This could have been any other peplum script with an erupting volcano tagged onto the end.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-06-25] Reference

Accordingly, the peplum is back in style and turning up on dresses, jackets, shirts and skirts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fall's Top Celebrity Fashion Trends] Reference

To make peplum feel modern, we suggest looking to ladies like Diane Kruger (pictured) for ideas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fall's Top Celebrity Fashion Trends] Reference

The dress on the left with the keyhole and peplum is just lovely.www.sewingwithtrudy.blogspot.com.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Week's Pattern Story - A Dress A Day] Reference

Prada's Fall 2008 collection features peplum, extra fabric at the hips to emphasize a small waist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fall Fashion Preview] Reference

He reminds me of Hercules or Maciste or whomever in every Italian peplum sword and sandal movie ever made.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brave and The Bold: "Evil Under The Sea!"] Reference

We continued to chat amicably when I was suddenly accosted by a large woman in an ill-fitting peplum suit.    From Wordnik.com.  [cat’s meow] Reference

Used loosely in early glossaries as a rendering of L. anabola, cyclas, peplum, ricinum. a1100 Aldhelm Gloss.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medallion Vulcan | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles] Reference

Naty, in a rorschach print peplum dress and a black tulle wrap hat, was one of the few models to sport sunglasses.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Runway: Jason Wu Spring 2010] Reference

Otherwise, since I have the fur one I thought I might have the coat made into a peplum waist for the velvet skirt.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930] Reference

Just you wait; the very first drip on my new dress and my extraordinarily short twin sister gets you with her peplum!.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Week's Pattern Story - A Dress A Day] Reference

This is an odd dress, proportion-wise; it looks too much like a t-shirt on top to me, or maybe the peplum is too long?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drabble #15 - A Dress A Day] Reference

Peach says she felt it was really chopping Erika without the peplum, to which MK argues that she has an avocado goiter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking: Project Runway Episode 6, "You Can Totally Wear That Again"] Reference

I'm not going to mince my words - the charts that made up the peplum for this sucked my will to live. 88 rows of 5 charts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference

I seem to remember being a bit confounded by some of the details at the back peplum of the jacket, but nothing hair-tearing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frankly, My Dear ... - A Dress A Day] Reference

Therefore, I've been spending a little time each day watching some peplum, or "sword and sandal" movies I haven't seen in awhile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-01-15] Reference

She's thinking of adding some peplum to the bottom, at which Tim audibly groans, but agrees she does need something to break it up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking: Project Runway Episode 6, "You Can Totally Wear That Again"] Reference

Kate Adie was smart in a black taffeta suit, with the peplum and jacket revers edged with frills, over a pink silk t-shirt or camisole.    From Wordnik.com.  [52 entries from February 2007] Reference

In the lesser Panathenæ they carried another peplum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Atlantis : the antediluvian world] Reference

And she detached the cameo which fastened the peplum upon her shoulder.    From Wordnik.com.  [King Candaules] Reference

Her costume consisted only, it is true, of a light peplum over a flesh-coloured foundation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idol of Paris] Reference

They would buy a new dress and peplum, go to see Selene, and then be carried to the prefect's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

At the end of the room stood now a huge archaic Nikê, with outstretched peplum and soaring wings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elizabeth's Campaign] Reference