Fitch

Fitchname

• 1

  A surname from Old French.

• 2

  An unincorporated community in Caswell County, North Carolina, United States.

fitchnoun詞源 1

• 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 skins of this pole-cat, now nearly extinct in Great Britain, are procured from the colder parts of Russia and Siberia.
  • Not only as it been quite difficult to eliminate the yellow tinge from the dyed fur, but practically every fur dyer has had to admit his inability to make the dyed fitch permanent in color or prevent it from very quickly turning or fading to a sickening shade of red […]
• 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 […]

fitchnoun詞源 2

• 1

  A kind of twisted open weave in wickerwork.

fitchverb詞源 2

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  To use this kind of open weave.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• vetch