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Cleavage-hiding scarf
Answer for the clue "Cleavage-hiding scarf ", 5 letters:
fichu
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Word definitions for fichu in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"scarf, neckerchief, small, triangular piece forming part of a woman's dress," 1803, from French fichu (18c. in this sense), apparently a noun use of the adjective fichu "carelessly thrown on," from Latin figere "to fasten" (see fix (v.)). "[M]od. substitution ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fichu \Fich"u\, n. [F., neckerchief.] A light cape, usually of lace, worn by women, to cover the neck and throat, and extending to the shoulders.
Usage examples of fichu.
She was a woman of about forty, with fine shoulders, a hook nose, a drawling voice, and on this evening she wore over her brown hair a simple guipure fichu that fell in a point at the back.
Off came the cropped, tight-fitting broadcloth jacket of her blue-grey travelling costume, off came the high, white lawn fichu swathing her throat, off came the earrings, heavy bracelets and pointed grey kid slippers.
Another anxious moment, and with a sigh of relief Betty slipped on the short waist with its puffed sleeves and essayed to pin the fichu daintily around her neck.
She was still wearing the long Paisley garment in which he had first seen her, but now there was a lace fichu draped over her shoulders, and a diamond ring in an old-fashioned gold setting shone on her large well-shaped hand.
She was still wearing the red Paisley dress which echoed her complexion so unfortunately, but the Honiton fichu and gold-set diamonds of the evening before lightened the sombre effect.
Taking the dainty white fichu from the bedf he arranged it in the neck of the gown, covering her semi-exposed bosom.
He opened the box and took out a small brooch of tiny diamonds and seed pearls, fastening it carefully in the fichu at herbreast.
But when she felt him knot her own fichu around her wrists, she panicked.
The ladies, wearing bonnets, had on dresses in the town fashion, gold watch chains, pelerines with the ends tucked into belts, or little coloured fichus fastened down behind with a pin, and that left the back of the neck bare.
The armchairs and window seat were heaped high with gowns, petticoats, fichus, shawls and manteaux, scarves, feathers and ribbons.
Never before have they seen a gathering so gay with muslins, straw hats, sunshades, bonnets, little bootees, handkerchiefs, bows and fichus.
Brown had left off her heavy paint and now she looked much like a respectable townswoman should, dressed in a fine but practical gown of dark green wool, a fichu firmly tucked into her capacious bosom.
The armchairs and window seat were heaped high with gowns, petticoats, fichus, shawls and manteaux, scarves, feathers and ribbons.
The ladies, wearing bonnets, had on dresses in the town fashion, gold watch chains, pelerines with the ends tucked into belts, or little coloured fichus fastened down behind with a pin, and that left the back of the neck bare.
Te rappelles-tu nos bonheurs sans nombre, Et tous ces fichus changes en chiffons?