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.
It quickly became very popular, in the early "fifties" every woman of either high or low degree possessing herself of at least a lace collar or fichu of Limerick lace.
Only once he let himself go and presented Emilie with a light pink fichu of real French material, and that very day she had burnt a hole in his gift with a candle.
He began to upbraid her; she fixed the fichu to the cat's tail; he was angry; she laughed in his face.
How prettily the black fichu which she has tied over her head, fastening it under the chin, frames the lovely oval of her fair face!
Sophie was just buttoning the young lady's velvet cloak, and tying a white fichu around her neck, "that your voice may not come to harm, Helen!
No trace of Susanna; her black gauze fichu lay on the floor in the middle of the room; on the sofa, half-hidden in the cushions, was a note.
When she appeared before them no trace of emotion was visible upon her face, and she had concealed the fated paper beneath the fichu that covered her bosom.
Her shoulders were covered with a silk fichu of the same color, knotted behind at the waist.
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.
Her brown eyes shone like two stars, and her cheeks were the colour of the knot of carnation ribbon that fastened the lace fichu of her dress.
Esther had put on her best frock and an old muslin fichu about her shoulders.
The fichu was one her mother had thrown away long ago, and Esther had rescued.
A massive fichu of freshly laundered muslin went around her neck and was tucked into her bodice; a white turban was on her head, but on top of the turban--!
The gentle sea-breeze blew Marguerite's hair about her face, and sent the ends of her soft lace fichu waving round her, like a white and supple snake.
Armand could not see her face, but presently it seemed to him that something which glittered for a moment in the golden evening light, fell from her eyes onto her daintyfichu of lace.
She looked quite a girl this morning in her simple muslin frock, with a broad blue sash round her slim waist, and the dainty cross-over fichu into which, at her bosom, she had fastened a few late crimson roses.
Always dressed in the very latest vagary of fashion, Marguerite alone among the ladies that night had discarded the crossover fichu and broad-lapelled over-dress, which had been in fashion for the last two or three years.
For the moment Marguerite's sweet face had become as white as the soft fichu which swathed her throat, and a very keen observer might have noted that the hand which held the tall, beribboned stick was clenched, and trembled somewhat.
Wrapped in my cloak, with a lace fichu over my head, I joined Mayer in the smoking-room, and then we both got into his hansom.
It had a soft fichu about the neck of yellowed muslin, with a pattern of little roses.
Therefore she had taken a little white lace fichu from her neck and tied it loosely over the dishevelled curls: the airy fabric crowned her charming head like a saintly halo.
What had she just been saying,--that figure in the dim background, not tall enough to allow more of her to be seen than the defiant movement of the white lace fichu above the golden blonde curls on the forehead?
She was not apparelled in the dress of old age; a fichu of white lace was crossed upon her breast and knotted behind at the waist.
The Countess sat by the window teasing a crimson and green macaw that swung in an ebony ring; she wore a black and white striped dress and a muslinfichu edged with glittering silver ribbon.
The mirror behind her reflected her slender figure in the tight lilac silk, the loops of soft brown hair falling over the muslin fichu and the faint coloured keys of the spinet.
Honoria put her hand to the muslinfichu crossed over her bosom.
She put her hand to her bosom and drew from her fichu a white ribbon on which hung a little shell.
She had a ribbon of the MacGregor tartan on her cap, and an uncompromising cairngorm fastened her fichu of valuable point lace.
The white dress was made without a collar, and was wrapped across her breast like a fichu which left the slender white stem of her throat uncovered.
She wore a black satin gown with a handsome point lace fichu and draped over her shoulders a soft, white shawl, while close by was a large jar of lavender hyacinths.
Her dress of white charmeuse, embroidered with violets, was fastened in front under a folded and crossed fichu of "shadow" lace and a bunch of real violets held on by an old-fashioned brooch.
As she did this she glanced down at the lace of her fichu now and then to make sure that she did not draw the thin line of gold so tightly across her neck that it became visible in moving.
Berg rose and embraced his wife carefully, so as not to crush her lace fichufor which he had paid a good price, kissing her straight on the lips.
Princess Yusupova wore one exactly like this," said Berg, pointing to the fichu with a happy and kindly smile.
The next moment a wave of color rushes up from beneath the creamy fichu and drowns her whole face.
She involuntarily puts her hands on her fichu as if to protect something there.
The white fichu covered deficiencies of fit, and left free the exquisite line of her throat.
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.
It is naught,” she said, and drew her fichu closer round her shoulders.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fichu" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
