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Triangular vs Fichu - What's the difference?

triangular | fichu |

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)
  • Shaped like a triangle.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword 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, […].}}
  • 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.
  • 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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