Triangular vs Fichu - What's the difference?
triangular | fichu |
Shaped like a triangle.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=Foreword Of, or pertaining to, triangles.
Having a triangle as a base; as, a triangular prism, a triangular pyramid.
Having three elements or parties; trilateral, tripartite.
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 an adjective triangular
is shaped like a triangle.As a noun fichu is
a woman's lightweight triangular scarf worn over the shoulders and tied in front.triangular
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away, […].}}
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.