Definition of fetching
: attractive, appealing
a fetching smile … actress Melanie Griffith, looking very fetching in a light-green silk dress and double diamond stud earrings.— Robert Goldberg If you tune your clock-radio to station 1540 in Charlotte, North Carolina, you wake up with a fetching female voice at your ear.— Arline Brecher There is something sweet and fetching about the episode.— Newgate Callendar From Ukrainian borscht to Vietnamese crab omelette, there is much to choose from, and all in all it's a fetching collection … — Publishers Weekly
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The first known use of fetching was in 1880
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