fétiche
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Borrowed from Portuguese feitiço, from Latin factīcius (“artificial”). Compare the doublet factice (a borrowing directly from the Latin), as well as the inherited Old French faitis.
Pronunciation
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[edit]fétiche m (plural fétiches)
- (religion) fetish, idol
- La sculpture caduveo (...) se limite (...) à des fétiches et des représentations de dieux toujours de petites dimensions. (Claude Lévi-Strauss, Anthropologie struct., 1958)
- (figuratively) amulet
- Synonym: porte-bonheur
- Il affectait de redouter les détours de la chance; il portait un fétiche d'or au milieu de son trousseau de clés. (Duhamel, Combat ombres, 1939)
- (sexuality) fetish
- La possession et la contemplation du fétiche provoquent soit l'orgasme sexuel, soit simplement des jouissances sentimentales platoniques. (Guiraud ds Lafon 1969)
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Adjective
[edit]fétiche (plural fétiches)
- (religion) animist
- Les arbres fétiches.
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- bringing good luck
- C’est mon bracelet fétiche.
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- (sexuality) fetish, used as a sexual fetish
- L’objet fétiche représente le pénis attribué par l’enfant à sa mère.
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Further reading
[edit]- “fétiche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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