fichu

1. 1.

   a lightweight triangular scarf worn by a woman

   Broaderscarf

Other forms of fichu

plural

fichus·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fichu

What does fichu mean?

fichu means "a lightweight triangular scarf worn by a woman".

How many syllables are in fichu?

fichu has 2 syllables: fi-chu. The stress falls on "fi".

Is fichu a common word?

fichu is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.