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
The becoming fichu and full skirt of this design seem to belong to the Colonial days with powdered hair and patches.
From Appropriate Clothes for the High School Girl by Virginia M. Alexander
Miss Manning's favorite anisette had accomplished its mission, and her white head was bowed on the billowy lace fichu that covered her neck.
From A Speckled Bird by Augusta J. Evans Wilson
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
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
The older women wore small bonnets and cashmere shawls, lace collars and cameos, the younger fichus and small flat hats above their "waterfalls" or curled chignons.
From Sleeping Fires: a Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
