Shoulder vs Fichu - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between shoulder and fichu

is that shoulder is The part of an animal's body between the base of the neck and forearm socket.fichu is a woman's lightweight triangular scarf worn over the shoulders and tied in front.

As a verb shoulder

is to push (a person or thing) using one's shoulder.

shoulder

English

Noun

(en noun)

(lb) The part of an animal's body between the base of the neck and forearm socket.

#The part of the human torso forming a relatively horizontal surface running away from the neck.

#*:But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder . The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window.

#*:With just the turn of a shoulder' she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, ''Mount Vernon'', river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks. In turn he smiled and also shrugged a ' shoulder .

#(lb) The joint between the arm and the torso, sometimes including the surrounding muscles, tendons, and ligaments.

#A cut of meat comprised of the upper joint of the foreleg and the surrounding muscle.

#The portion of a garment where the shoulder is clothed.

Anything forming a shape resembling a human shoulder.

A shelf between two levels.

#A part of a road where drivers may stop in an emergency; a hard shoulder.

#The portion of a hill or mountain just below the peak.

#*Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)

#*:the north western shoulder of the mountain

#The lateral protrusion of a hill or mountain.

#The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank.

#An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object, or limits motion, etc., such as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timber.

(lb) The flat portion of type that is below the bevelled portion that joins up with the face.

The portion below the neck.

#(lb) The rounded portion of stringed instrument where the neck joins the body.

#The rounded portion of a bottle where the neck meets the body.

#(lb) The angled section between the neck and the main body of a cartridge.

(lb) That which supports or sustains; support.

*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:In thy shoulder do I build my seat.

Derived terms

* cold shoulder * hard shoulder * rub shoulders * shoulder bag * shoulder blade * shoulder check * shoulder-length * shoulder pad * shoulder season * shoulder to cry on * straight from the shoulder * you can't put an old head on young shoulders

Verb

(en verb)

To push (a person or thing) using one's shoulder.

* (rfdate) (Edmond Spenser)

As they the earth would shoulder from her seat.

* (rfdate) (Rowe)

''Around her numberless the rabble flowed, / Shouldering each other, crowding for a view.

To carry (something) on one's shoulders.

(figuratively) To bear a burden, as a financial obligation.

To put (something) on one's shoulders.

(figuratively) To accept responsibility for.

shoulder the blame

To place (something) against one's shoulders.

To form a shape resembling a shoulder.

To move by or as if by using one's shoulders.

fichu

English

(wikipedia 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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