Kolpos excess fabric was pulled up over it. The fabric fell over the girdle so as to hide it, and was often pulled longer in back than in front. This fold was the kolpos. A second (visible) zone could be tied over the kolpos to redefine the waist, high or low. This might be hidden again by the apoptygma, the loose, folded down top of the peplos. Kolpos The kolpos (Greek: κόλποις κόλπον κόλπῳ, a gulf, bay or creek) is the "blousing" of a peplos, chiton or tunic in Ancient Greek clothing, whereby excess length of the material hangs folded over
Rhombus a kite. A rhombus with right angles is a square. The word "rhombus" comes from Greek ("rhombos"), meaning something that spins, which derives from the verb ῥέμβω ("rhembō"), meaning "to turn round and round." The word was used both by Euclid and Archimedes, who used the term "solid rhombus" for two right circular cones sharing a common base. The surface we refer to as "rhombus" today is a cross section of this solid rhombus through the apex of each of the two cones. A simple (non-self-intersecting) quadrilateral is a rhombus if and only if it is any one of the