A woman's lightweighttriangularscarf worn over the shoulders and tied in front, or tucked into a bodice to cover the exposed part of the neck and chest.
Origin
Borrowed from French fichu (in the sense of something thrown on without much thought), from ficher, ultimately from Latin fīgō, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ-.
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