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noun
A woman's lightweight triangular scarf worn over the shoulders and tied in front, or tucked into a bodice to cover the exposed part of the neck and chest.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
a lightweight triangular scarf worn by a woman
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: scarf
History
Borrowed from French fichu (“(noun) triangular scarf; (adjective) got up, put together”) (in the sense of something thrown on without much thought), from ficher (“to drive something (such as a nail) by its point”), ultimately from Latin fīgō (“to fasten, fix; to pierce, transfix; to drive (a nail)”), from Proto-Indo-European *dheygw- (“to set up”).
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