fetch.

An apparition or double of a living person in some folkloric accounts, sometimes regarded as an omen of death.

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Words that belong together

• a person’s fetch
• encounter a fetch

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She thought the figure was his fetch until the voice spoke her name.

The tale made the encounter with a fetch an omen the narrator refused to accept.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Singular fetch; plural fetches. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: fetches.