Shawl vs Fichu - What's the difference?
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As nouns the difference between shawl and fichu is that shawl is a square or rectangular piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, and shoulders while fichu is a woman's lightweight triangular scarf worn over the shoulders and tied in front. As a verb shawl is to wrap in a shawl.
shawl English
Noun
( wikipedia shawl)
( en noun)
A square or rectangular piece of cloth worn as a covering for the head, neck, and shoulders.
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Derived terms
* beshawled
Verb
( en verb)
To wrap in a shawl.
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fichu Noun
( en noun)
A woman's lightweight triangular scarf worn over the shoulders and tied in front
* 1789, The Ladies Magazine , January 1789, "Fashionable Dresses: The First Lady's Dress", page 55
- On the neck—an ample Fichu , very prominent, the point of which behind goes under the jacket and the ends before go under the stomacher
* 1868 London Society , vol. XIII, "Fashion at Longchamps", page 407
- The fichu proper, introduced by Marie Antoinette, not before the décolletée style of toilette made it positively necessary, was nothing more than a lace kerchief worn crossed over the shoulders.
* 1919, , 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.
* 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 285:
- Assistant Van admired her elegant slenderness, the gray tailor-made suit, the smoky fichu and as it wafted away, her long white neck.
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