fichu
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Origin of fichu
1795–1805; < French: noun use of fichu, past participle of ficher to drive in, fix (informally, to throw, fling; hence, something put on hastily, loosely attached) < Vulgar Latin *fīgicāre, for Latin fīgere; cf. finca
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By the end of the day, she persuaded me to buy her a yellow linen dress with a tie in the back and a fichu, a white triangle of cloth tucked into the neckline.
From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2013
But the feeling of that giddy costume extravaganza came through only in an airy cream and ivory palette and in shapes suggesting trim court breeches and dainty fichu collars.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2010
Another woman tried on an exquisite Arlesian fichu.
From Time Magazine Archive
"There is one at Varenac who is more than brother to me," she whispered, plucking at the end of her fichu.
From A Blot on the Scutcheon by Knowles, Mabel Winifred
Entered, with a shy and demure air, a girl dressed in the simplest kind of dress made of thin black muslin, with a white fichu over her shoulders falling in long ends below her waist.
From Poppy The Story of a South African Girl by Stockley, Cynthia
When stored in the open, they often wear translucent fichus of plastic film.
From Time Magazine Archive
Christian's estate glittered with exotic tropic birds and costly tapestries; his person with jewels, velvet, and fine lace fichus.
From Time Magazine Archive
There are whopping cabbage roses, short lengths and, in the lace-printed fichus, references to Arles, in Lacroix's native Provence.
From Time Magazine Archive
To make one costume seem like many, women are buying in vast quantities dickies, jabots, fichus, gilets, ruches, berthas, bibs, piccadillies, collets, modesties and ruffs.
From Time Magazine Archive
To-day, they spread out their fichus more proudly, but there is no longer that sweet flower of old-fashioned pudicity in their costume that made them resemble Holbein's virgins.
From The Devil's Pool by Ives, George Burnham
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