• (RP) IPA: /ˈfɪʃ(j)uː/, /ˈfiː-/
• (GA) IPA: /ˈfɪʃ(j)uː/, /ˈfi-/

fichu (plural fichus)

1. (chiefly, historical) A woman's lightweight triangular scarf wear#Verb|worn over the shoulder#Noun|shoulders and tie#Verb|tied in front, or tuck#Verb|tucked into a bodice to cover#Verb|cover the exposed#Adjective|exposed part of the neck#Noun|neck and chest#Noun|chest.
   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 5, in Ada, or, Ardor: A Family Chronicle, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, OCLC 799495966 ↗; republished Harmondsworth, London: Penguin Books, 1970, →ISBN, part 2, pages 288–289 ↗:

     Assistant Van admired her elegant slenderness, the gray tailor-made suit, the smoky fichu and as it wafted away, her long white neck.

• French: fichu
• German: Fichu
• Russian: фишю́