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Word: fichu (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...most brilliant of all Pinkham advertising ideas was Dan's proposal to put his mother's face on every ad. 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 sagacious and composed elderly features. Here was everybody's grandmother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Everybody's Grandmother | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Which from her fichu may escape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cleavage & The Code | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

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