fichu
I don't want to turn this blog entirely into words I encountered in Privilege of the Sword, but I do want to note that a "fichu" is a particular kind of scarf.
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I don't want to turn this blog entirely into words I encountered in Privilege of the Sword, but I do want to note that a "fichu" is a particular kind of scarf.
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I've never heard it in English, but fichu is french for scarf
Posted by: Fred | September 4, 2006 6:57 PM
In the book _These Happy Golden Years_, by Laura Ingalls Wilder (the last Little House on the Prairie book, in which Laura gets married) her friend gives her a large triangular piece of lace, which is described as a fichu.
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September 5, 2006 11:49 AM