foulard
IPA: fˈaʊɫɝd
noun
- A lightweight silk or silk-and-cotton fabric, often with a printed pattern.
- A piece of clothing, or a handkerchief, made with this fabric.
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Examples of "foulard" in Sentences
- Fabio leans in conspiratorially, adjusting his silk foulard.
- Carla Crosta Silk foulard 1989 by Carla Crosta on show in Milan.
- It gives a little bling to the foulard and the masculine touch gives it an astute edge.
- When you meet a chateau owner in Bordeaux, his hands are smooth and he's wearing a foulard.
- Rule #1: Learn how to tie a scarf because a silk foulard has adorned the necks of the loveliest ladies throughout history.
- They saw a plain figure dressed in a pink silk of the kind that is tempered by the word "foulard," and a plain face that wore a look of love of life that the queens envied.
- The star at our table was Aubert de Villaine, the 71-year-old proprietor of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, one of the few Burgundian vignerons who probably wears a foulard from time to time.
- Cendall was a very fine, thin silk fit for summer wear, resembling what is now called foulard; say was the coarsest and cheapest sort of silk, and was used for upholstery as well as clothing.
- Yet with the economic disparities, immigration issues, higher unemployment and Sarkozy the hardliner president enforcing the ban on women/girls wearing the 'foulard' scarf in the workplace or school who knows?
- In fact, the French have an entire vocabulary for differentiating kinds of scarves: foulard for a classic, lightweight silk scarf; é charpe for a thicker wool scarf; and variations on the foulard, like the smaller gavroche and the square carr é .
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