Scarf vs Fichu - What's the difference?
scarf | fichu |
A long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=2 A headscarf.
(dated) A neckcloth or cravat.
To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf.
* 1599-1601 , (William Shakespeare), (Hamlet), Act 5, Scene 2:
To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping.
A type of joint in woodworking.
A groove on one side of a sewing machine needle.
A dip or notch or cut made in the trunk of a tree to direct its fall when felling.
To shape by grinding.
To form a scarf on the end or edge of, as for a joint in timber, forming a "V" groove for welding adjacent metal plates, metal rods, etc.
To unite, as two pieces of timber or metal, by a scarf joint.
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English nouns with irregular plurals
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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
* 1868 London Society , vol. XIII, "Fashion at Longchamps", page 407
* 1919, , Duckworth, hardback edition, page 93
* 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 285:
As nouns the difference between scarf and fichu
is that scarf is a long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck or scarf can be a type of joint in woodworking or scarf can be (scotland) a cormorant while fichu is a woman's lightweight triangular scarf worn over the shoulders and tied in front.As a verb scarf
is to throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf or scarf can be to shape by grinding or scarf can be (transitive|us|slang) to eat very quickly.scarf
English
(wikipedia scarf)Etymology 1
Probably from . http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/scarf?s=t. The verb is derived from the noun.Noun
(en-noun)citation, passage=Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.}}
Verb
(en verb)- My sea-gown scarfed about me.
Etymology 2
(the first two definitions) Of uncertain origin. Possibly from (etyl) skarfr, derivative of .Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)Etymology 3
Of imitative origin, or a variant of scoff. Alternatively from (etyl) .Usage notes
The more usual form in the UK is scoff.Derived terms
* scarf downEtymology 4
Icelandic (skarfr)?References
fichu
English
(wikipedia fichu)Noun
(en noun)- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- Assistant Van admired her elegant slenderness, the gray tailor-made suit, the smoky fichu and as it wafted away, her long white neck.