fichu

Example Sentences

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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

The result was inspired to the last detail�"the neat black silk dress, the tortoise-shell comb, the white fichu fastened with a cameo brooch," the perpetual smile, the sagacious and composed elderly features.

From Time Magazine Archive

Another woman tried on an exquisite Arlesian fichu.

From Time Magazine Archive

For, seated upon a low limb of an apple tree, her two little feet hanging down, and garbed in pink-flowered chintz and snowy fichu, I beheld Penelope Grant, a-knitting.

From The Little Red Foot by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)