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
Lady Rosslyn chose a white embroidered muslin petticoat, the overdress of pink and red striped silk, fichu and ruches of black lisse, and a picturesque hat.
From The Evolution of Fashion by Florence Mary Gardiner
Did you buy that fichu on the Campo dei Fiori?
From Boris Lensky by Ossip Schubin
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
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
Christian's estate glittered with exotic tropic birds and costly tapestries; his person with jewels, velvet, and fine lace fichus.
From Time Magazine Archive
When stored in the open, they often wear translucent fichus of plastic film.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the vicinity of the cemetery gathered many colored marchandes, their 369 heads and shoulders draped in shawls and fichus of bright, diversified hues; before them, perambulating booths with baskets of molasses candy or pain-patate.
From The Strollers by Harrison Fisher
