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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
fetishise .
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Examples
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When Castro "said the 'Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore' he was almost making reference to that kind of 'fetishised' Cuban model.
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A few brave or fetishised exceptions aside, everyone has everything in the right place.
The Guyliner: Do I Really Need a Six-Pack to Make an Impact? Why I'm Sticking With the Body I've Got The Guyliner 2011
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There's a large extent to which, with slash, those fetishised gays are being * identified* with by any female reader.
Fanfiction Hal Duncan 2010
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Later, at GM's soirée, we see her lifted into arching overhead displays, examined with connoisseurial lecherousness, fondled, tasted and fetishised.
Manon – review 2011
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The White Negro had fetishised blackness; these newer arrivals glorified lower-middle-class whites.
Why do people hate hipsters? Alex Rayner 2010
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Alongside their appearance on Sex and the City, where they were fetishised to within an inch of their soon-stale little lives, cupcakes last year became fashionable in Britain too, with one fan (who, dressed as her alter ego Cherry Bakewell, hosts cupcake parties) describing them as a "real symbol of femininity, and a camp symbol of a bygone era".
The truth about men, women and food Eva Wiseman 2010
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The books themselves are packaged not just as collections of recipes but as fetishised objects: food photography, in which meals are made to look delicious with the aid of hairspray and cigarette smoke, is now an art form and industry in its own right.
A culinary nativity with Jamie, Hugh and Lorraine | Joe Moran 2011
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A few brave or fetishised exceptions aside, everyone has everything in the right place.
The Guyliner: Do I Really Need a Six-Pack to Make an Impact? Why I'm Sticking With the Body I've Got The Guyliner 2011
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Larry Reid, punk promoter and manager, says it feels a bit like they've "fetishised" the grunge scene, though, as Novoselic points out, it's better than seeing Cobain's guitar hanging off the wall at a Hard Rock Café while you're eating chilli fries.
In search of Nirvana 2011
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The food here is evolved without being fetishised, each dish designed around a single ingredient that gets a role commensurate with its billing.
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