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ficelle (iou)



ficelle noun. L19.
[French = string.]
The off-white colour of much string. Only attrib. or in comb., as ficelle-colour, ficelle-coloured. L19.
A (stage) device, an artifice. L19.
G. Murray Raids on women were a real cause of war, but they were also a..favourite ficelle of fiction.