Kolpos 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 a zone (a narrow girdle). The fabric of the garment was typically cut longer than the shoulder-to-floor measurement of the women or man wearing it. The excess length was dealt with at the waist (creating the kolpos) and optionally the top edge (creating the apoptygma). To create the kolpos, a zone was tied around the body below the breast (high-girdled) or at the waist (low-girdled) and
Stereotype (printing) 1814. Over time, "stereotype" became a metaphor for any set of ideas repeated identically or with only minor changes. In fact, "cliché" and "stereotype" were both originally printers' words, and in their printing senses became synonymous. However, "cliché" originally had a slightly different meaning, being an onomatopoeic word for the sound that was made during the process of striking a block into molten type–metal during another form of stereotyping, later called in English "dabbing". The term "stereotype" derives from Greek στερεός ("stereos") "solid, firm" and τύπος ("tupos") "blow, impression, engraved mark" and in its modern sense was coined in 1798.