Definitions for fichu

fichu fich·u

Spelling: [fish-oo; French fee-shy]
IPA: /ˈfɪʃ u; French fiˈʃü/

Fichu is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 31 anagrams from letters in fichu (cfhiu).

Definitions for fichu

noun

  1. a woman's kerchief or shawl, generally triangular in shape, worn draped over the shoulders or around the neck with the ends drawn together on the breast.

Origin of fichu

1795-1805; French: noun use of fichu, past participle of ficher to drive in, fix (informally, to throw, fling; hence, something put on hastily, loosely attached) Vulgar Latin *fīgicāre, for L

Examples for fichu

"Doubtless," replied Madame, arranging a napkin carefully over her fichu, and dealing rigorously with some mayonnaise sauce.

And you look deliciously pretty in that dress, though she did make a fiasco of the back; let the fichu come well down over it.

The green chiffon crossed the shoulders in fichu effect, and the elbow-length sleeves were edged with bands of green.

Pamela's contained a rather short-waisted frock of lilac silk, with a fichu of chiffon tied softly round the shoulders.

She paused to shake out the lustrous silk and spread the fichu over it that I might see the delicate pattern of the lace.

There were ruffles of point lace in the full sleeves, and she held up the point-lace cap and fichu that completed the costume.

The fichu was one her mother had thrown away long ago, and Esther had rescued.

She furthermore wore a fichu of a style which had been entirely extinct for fifty years at least.

The women wore a calico skirt, a white shirt with a bracelet at the elbow to hold the sleeves and a fichu on the head.

It only wants the sleeves shortened and some lace put in, and the neck turned down to make it lower, and then a fichu put round.

Word Value for fichu
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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