[a. Fr. foulard.]
1. A thin flexible material of silk, or of silk mixed with cotton.
1864. E. Sargent, Peculiar, II. 137. Laura was attired in a light checked foulard silk, trimmed with cherry-colored ribbons.
1885. Yng. Ladies’ Jrnl., 1 July, 42/1. The new cambrics … very much resemble foulards.
2. A handkerchief of this material.
1879. Boddam-Whetham, Roraima, vii. 60. We see shops and stores filled with gay-coloured foulards, straw hats, finery of all sorts, and an excess of gold ornaments.
1888. P, Kropotkin, The Breakdown of Our Industrial System, in 19th Cent., XXIII. April, 514. A foulard has become a common attire with the St. Petersburg housemaids, because the North Caucasian domestic trades suppy them at a price which would starve the Lyons weavers.
