Noun

1. A woman's lightweight triangular scarf worn over the shoulders and tied in front

Quotations

• 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part I, Chapter Three, 6th paragraph, last sentence.

  Between the window and the hearth Emma was sewing; she wore no fichu; he could see small drops of perspiration on her bare shoulders.

• 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.