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
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