fichu

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.

She wore a stiff brocade cut in an obsolete fashion, with a broad sash and full white fichu loosely knotted behind.

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.

The two women in fichus were young; one was ugly, while the other had rather pretty features.

"What, monsieur! do you mean to say that you would take to the theatre a woman in a cotton dress, cap, and a fichu instead of a shawl?"