fete champetre

An entertainment in the open air; a rural festival. fête, v. t. [FETE, 8.] To entertain or receive with festive entertainments. "Hermann's feted and thanked, While his rascally rival get's to ed in a blanket." Barham: In golds by Legends; Hermann. though the motive which inspires such conduct is the same in the European and in the negro. Fetichism is more general in Africa than elsewhere; but, wherever a belief in witchcraft exists, there some form of fetichism is sure to be found. "The savage does not abandon his belief in Fetichism , from which no race of men has yet entirely freed itself." -Lubbock: Origin of Civilization (1882), p. 334. 2. Fig .: Devotion to any object, pursuit, or idea. fe-tich-is-tic, a. [Eng. fetich ; -istic.] Of or pertaining to fetichism; gro ly superstitious. "Epicurean levity and Fetichistic dread."-G. Eliot : Romola (Proem).