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    [Noun]  | "fe*tish" | \ ˈfe-tish \


    1: a usually handcrafted object (such as a carving) of spiritual significance that is believed to have the power to protect or aid its owner; also : an object made in the style of a fetish

    2: a material object regarded with superstitious or extravagant trust or reverence

    3: an object of irrational reverence or obsessive devotion : prepossession


    Origin: 1613 ;

     French & Portuguese; French fétiche, from Portuguese feitiço, from feitiço artificial, false, from Latin facticius factitious;

    [Noun]  | "fetishes" 


    1: something about which one is constantly thinking or concerned;


      * e.g., " ... dieting seems to be a fetish with some people "





    2: something worn or kept to bring good luck or keep away evil;


      * e.g., " ... an archaeologist discovering an old animal tooth that may have been worn as a fetish "



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    [Noun]  | "fetish" 


    1: something about which one is constantly thinking or concerned;


      * e.g., " ... dieting seems to be a fetish with some people "





    2: something worn or kept to bring good luck or keep away evil;


      * e.g., " ... an archaeologist discovering an old animal tooth that may have been worn as a fetish "



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