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Peplum vs. Pablum — What's the Difference?

Peplum vs. Pablum — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Peplum and Pablum

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Peplum

A short overskirt or ruffle attached at the waistline of a jacket, blouse, or dress.

Pablum

Pablum is a processed cereal for infants originally marketed and co-created by the Mead Johnson Company in 1931. The product was tested on Indigenous Children in Canadian residential schools, and then further developed at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario, to combat infant malnutrition.

Peplum

See peplos.

Pablum

A bland soft cereal for infants.

Peplum

(historical) A peplos, an Ancient Greek garment formed of a tubular piece of cloth folded back upon itself halfway down so that the top of the tube is worn around the waist, and the bottom covers the legs down to the ankles; the open top is then worn over the shoulders, and draped, in folds, down to the waist. Compare the Roman palla.
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Pablum

Intellectual material that is bland, trite, or insipid
"It was the sort of pablum routinely pronounced by State Department spokesmen when they had no real policy to describe" (Steve Coll).

Peplum

(historical) A kind of women's outer garment in ancient Greece; a veil.

Pablum

(derogatory) Anything overly bland or simplistic, especially speech or writing.

Peplum

(fashion) A short overskirt cut in such a way that the sides form points. from 20th century

Pablum

(dated) Nourishment.

Peplum

(fashion) A short overskirt attached to the waist of a garment; a basque.

Pablum

Alt case form of Pablum

Peplum

(uncountable) A genre of Italian films based on historical or biblical epics. en

Pablum

A form of cereal for infants.

Peplum

(countable) An individual film in this genre.

Pablum

A diet that does not require chewing.

Peplum

A peplos. Hence: An overskirt hanging like an ancient peplos; also, a short fitted skirt attached to a waist or coat.

Pablum

Worthless or oversimplified ideas.

Peplum

A flared ruffle attached to the waistline of a dress or jacket or blouse

Pablum

A soft form of cereal for infants

Peplum

A garment worn by women in ancient Greece; cloth caught at the shoulders and draped in folds to the waist

Pablum

Worthless or oversimplified ideas

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