| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| fichu |
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| SYLLABICATION: | fich·u |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  f sh  , f -sh |
| NOUN: | A woman's triangular scarf of lightweight fabric, worn over the shoulders and crossed or tied in a loose knot at the breast. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French, from past participle of ficher, to fix, from Vulgar Latin *figic re, from Latin f gere. See dhgw- in Appendix I.
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