The Empress and the little Grand Duchess wore simple suits offoulard (orfoulard silk, I don't know which is proper,) with a small blue spot in it[…]
1939,Raymond Chandler,The Big Sleep, Penguin, published2011, page176:
A lot offoulard tie bulged out and was rain-spotted above his crossed lapels.
1947,Men's Wear, volume114, page90, column 1:
"Frammis on the Antispode": The doubletalk heading this paragraph takes the sting out of Mr. Ruark's comment, even if his gay coloredfoulard Sinatra bow tie didn't contradict his comment[.]
According toRoyal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
