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farfetches

farfetches is the plural of farfetch.

Meaning of farfetch

Noun

farfetch (plural farfetches)

  1. (obsolete) Anything brought from afar, or brought about with studious care; a deep stratagem.
    • But Jesuits have deeper reaches
      In all their politic far-fetches1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “(please specify the page)”, in Hudibras. The First Part. […], London: […] J. G. for Richard Marriot, […], →OCLC
  2. Long distance
    • "`Come!' I said, for I thought she wandered. `Eat of the food and let us be gone. It is a far fetch from here to Akatan.'1900 April 7, Jack London, “(please specify the page number(s))”, in The Son of the Wolf: Tales of the Far North, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC

Questions about farfetches

What is farfetches the plural of?
Farfetches is the plural of farfetch.

Words near farfetches in the dictionary

  1. farfet
  2. farfetch
  3. farfetched
  4. farfetchedly
  5. farfetchedness
  6. farfetches
  7. Farfor
  8. farforth
  9. fargard
  10. fargards
  11. Fargo

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