Dictionary Definition
fichu n : a lightweight triangular scarf worn by
a woman
User Contributed Dictionary
Quotations
- 1919, Ronald
Firbank, Valmouth,
Duckworth, hardback edition, page 93
- She wore a dress of filmy white stuff, embroidered with bunches of pale mauve thistles, a full fichu, and a large mauve hat with wide mauve ribbons, tied in front in a large knot where the fichu was crossed on her bosom.
French
- defn French
Related terms
Extensive Definition
A fichu is a large, square kerchief worn by women in the
18th
century to fill in the low neckline of a bodice. The fichu was generally
of linen fabric and was
folded diagonally into
a triangle and tied, pinned, or tucked into the bodice in
front.
References
- Baumgarten, Linda: What Clothes Reveal: The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America, Yale University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-300-09580-5
- Cunnington, C.Willett and Phillis Emily Cunnington: Handbook of English Costume in the Eighteenth Century. London: Faber, 1972.
- Payne, Blanche: History of Costume from the Ancient Egyptians to the Twentieth Century, Harper & Row, 1965. No ISBN for this edition; ASIN B0006BMNFS
- Ribeiro, Aileen: Dress in Eighteenth Century Europe 1715-1789, Yale University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-300-09151-6
fichu in German: Fichu