fitches

Noun (1)

fitch (plural fitches)

1. A polecat, such as the European polecat (Mustela putorius), the striped polecat, steppe polecat, or black-footed polecat of America.
   • The more beautiful of the two comes from a North American species, the black-footed pole-cat (No. 3), which is creamy yellow, sprinkled with black. Made-up skins of this species are sold as "natural fitch" to distinguish them from those of the common fitch, which are generally dyed. The finest...1914, Herbert Greenhough Smith, The Strand Magazine, page 510
2. A skin of a polecat.
   • For those who cannot afford the luxury of real fur, the most picturesque and delightful substitute is offered in stoles and muffs made up of plush-pony skin trimmed with a piece of natural fitch set slant-ways across the front of the muff […]1914, Ford Madox Ford, The English Review

Noun (2)

fitch (plural fitches)

1. A kind of twisted open weave in wickerwork.

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