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  • n  a lightweight triangular scarf worn by a woman

  • Hals still gave the wealthy young housewife's finery its due, from dangling earrings to her triangular, diaphanous white fichu primly pinned with a golden ribbon bow.
  • Another woman tried on an exquisite Arlesian fichu.
  • The result was inspired to the last detail"the neat black silk dress, the tortoise-shell comb, the white fichu fastened with a cameo brooch," the perpetual smile, the .

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