foulard
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- noun
- /fuˈlɑrd/
- Called a "scarf" (foulard) by opponents to the ban and a "veil" by its supporters, it is neither; what the wearers call the hijab covers hair and neck, leaving the face tightly framed.
- foulard tie
- foulard print
- foulard tie patterns
Examples
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He is handsome, fiftyish, wearing cotton twill pants and a Turnbull & Asher shirt with a foulard knotted at the neck.
Fiction book (1998) -
He'd dressed simply for his visit to the Candy Box, in a Savile Row suit and silk shirt from Sulka, with a foulard tie and pocket square.
Fiction book (2001) -
I got the red foulard okay, didn't I?
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I'd like you to wear your black-and-white foulard.
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That's how she thinks of the blond boy in the blue suit and the blue-and-maroon foulard.
Fiction book (1995) -
Where's the black-and-white foulard?
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Unable to button the topmost button of his dress shirt, he had attempted to disguise the shortcoming with a loosely tied black foulard.
Fiction book (1991) -
He was tanned in every season and spent too much money on his high-styled Italian suits and snazzy foulards, accompanied by too much jewelry.
Fiction book (2000) -
He stood bewildered for a moment, tried to study a painting but found his view blocked by two blue-haired American women in tweed skirts and foulard scarves.
Fiction book (1991) -
She wore a beautiful foulard around her neck that added a pop of color to her outfit.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Foulard comes from French foulard, probably related to the old French verb fouler meaning 'to press' cloth. So a foulard is a thin, smooth fabric or scarf that has been worked and pressed, which is why the word refers to the light silk used for scarves and ties.