Meaning & use
Fitches
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The fur of the European polecat, or artists' paintbrushes traditionally made from such fur.
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The illustrator preferred fitches for fine detail work because of their firm, springy bristles.
The old coat was trimmed with fitches along the collar.
A note on using this word
The word also appears in the King James Bible, where 'fitches' refers to a cultivated grain, an unrelated older sense of the term.
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polecat fur
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