English Dictionary

fitch

名詞

A polecat, such as the European polecat (Mustela putorius), the striped polecat, steppe polecat, or black-footed polecat of America. / A skin of a polecat.

日本語の意味

ヨーロッパイタチなど、イタチ科に属する動物（例：ヨーロッパイタチ、縞模様のイタチ、ステップイタチ、アメリカの黒足イタチ） / （または）イタチの毛皮

A lone fitch slipped silently through the marsh, hunting for small rodents under the moonlight.

一頭のイタチが月明かりの下、湿地を静かに抜けながら小さなげっ歯類を狩っていた。

意味（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.

意味（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 […]

fitches （ plural ）