Fetching

(Colloq.) Attractive; calculated to attract attention and elicit admiration; as, a fetching costume. Feydeau ( fā - do ), ERNEST, French novelist; born in 1821; his stories are descriptions of life in the time of the Empire and depict its worst features. His best work was Sylvie . Died in 1873. Fi'at Money. ( Fin .) Any currency, whether of paper or metal, that is placed in circulation and maintained as legal tender by the command (fiat) of a government or other competent power. The term is generally, though loosely, applied to a paper currency the substance of which is valuele , and for which redemption in a specified commodity is not promised, but which has been endowed by law with the legal tender quality; as distinguished from legal tender coins composed of metal supposedly equal in value to the face of same, or a paper currency bearing on its face a credible promise of redemption on demand in a so-called precious metal. See MONEY.