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A loincloth worn by men and women in ancient Greece.
1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
The traveller was in Erewhonian clothes to keep him inconspicuous, a conical felt hat with owl feather, yellow tabard, tasselled perizoma, belled sandals, and umbrella.
perizoma in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
perizoma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.