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Meanings of fetish in English
Usage of fetish in English
1
With him, sincerity in art was a fetish; in life, a superfluity.
2
Hence the symbolic use of leather-primitiveanimal hide-forwhips and fetish clothing.
3
On the salvage of a fetish than the winning of the fight.
4
For a couple of years there, I had a major blimp fetish.
5
She picked up a bear fetish-itsright paw raised, miniature claws exposed.
6
Harmless, with an unnatural fetish for locks, yet obsessed with his wine.
7
It is respected, honoured, loved; but it is no longer a fetish.
8
I also thought it was rather pretty for a hideous, fear-invoking fetish.
9
Maybe she was involved with some kind of fetish dungeon or something.
10
Shooting has become a kind of fetish in these parts, Mr. Quatermain.
11
Then from a cautious distance she continued her examination of the fetish.
12
The dethronement of a fetish may give a sounder faith its chance.
13
She has not bowed the knee to our modern fetish of education.
14
Like Oz it appears to have a slight fetish for religious iconography.
15
He bowed again as if saluting a fetish, and again and again.
16
Caleb's secret bondage fetish was not the only shadow on his soul.
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Fetish through the time
Fetish across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common