fichu
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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
She took the fichu from her shoulders and laid it reverently over the dead man's face: she folded the hands across the breast.
From Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
On working days they were dressed in cotton gowns, with a little woolen fichu tied behind and a silk handkerchief falling back on the neck from the uncovered head.
From The Fourth Estate, vol.1 by Armando Palacio Vald?s
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
When stored in the open, they often wear translucent fichus of plastic film.
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
Christian's estate glittered with exotic tropic birds and costly tapestries; his person with jewels, velvet, and fine lace fichus.
From Time Magazine Archive
The third girl, with a delight for old-fashioned ways, was followed by six maids in quaint Colonial gowns of plain or flowered silk, no two costumes alike, save for soft white lace fichus.
From Entertaining Made Easy by Emily Rose Burt
