Crossword-Solution: FETISHES
We have 9 clues for the answer “FETISHES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Objects of blind reverence | 1 answer |
| Objects of irrational devotion | 1 answer |
| Objects of special devotion. | 1 answer |
| Prepossessions | 1 answer |
| Rabbits' feet, for instance. | 1 answer |
| Sexology topics | 1 answer |
| Fixations | 3 answers |
| Magic charms | 5 answers |
| Charms | 20 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FETISHES (5)
And is not gaming a species of idolatry, symbolized by cards, and which has its images, its fetishes, its miracles, its fanatics, and its martyrs? Occasionally, above the accompaniment of whispers, rose the strange and incoherent exclamations of the players: “Here are twenty louis! I take it--I pass! The play is made! Banco!” “What a strange gathering!” thought Pascal Ferailleur.
And, when the whim changes, it is most easy and delightfully disconcerting to play with the respectable and cowardly bourgeois fetishes and to laugh and epigram at the flitting god-ghosts and the debaucheries and follies of wisdom.
People nowadays were too busy--busy with reforms and "movements," with fads and fetishes and frivolities--to bother much about their neighbours.
Following these Religieux came all the sacred relics and fetishes of the Church, as Maya's holy cup for water, all holy books, crosses, banners, with sacred emblems in their order, and finally the Czar, humbly, and, like all his people, on foot, followed by courtly throngs.
These doctrines of cleanness and uncleanness no doubt may have taken their rise in the real or fancied utility of the prescriptions, but it is probable that the origin of many is indicated in the curious habit of the Samoans to make fetishes of living animals.
Quotes with FETISHES (3)
Look, I don't know what you are, but you're more than a geologist, if you are one at all. I've met lots of geologists on different projects like this, and they're all tiny sunburned men with fetishes for geodes. They wear floppy hats and carry baggies for soil samples around with them. ... And geologists don't make rocks disappear like you did the other night. They keep them and build little shrines to them.
Art is the business of selling fetishes, sacred relics once touched by genius: what the forger offers the gullible buyer is not art, it is "authenticity
The Dutch fetishes who converted me tell me every Sunday that the blacks and whites are all children of one father, whom they call Adam. As for me, I do not understand anything of genealogies; but if what these preachers say is true, we are all second cousins; and you must allow that it is impossible to be worse treated by our relations than we are.
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, WSJ.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1954–2025).