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fechles noun plural rags 20-. Compare fidileas, fichel etymology: origin obscure but perhaps connected to Scots filchans ‘bundles of rags patched or fastened together; the attire of a travelling mendicant’; perhaps also connected with Beurla Reagaird feidleas with the same meaning; collected by EMcC/PS; also attested by Galloway Tinkler-Gypsies, BS in TDITA and SS