cross fox

American  

noun

1. a red fox in the color phase in which the fur is reddish brown with a dark stripe down the back and another over the shoulders.

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Etymology

Origin of cross fox

First recorded in 1765–75

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cross fox

The only skins unaffected were such blue-chip staples as the very fine white, silver, and cross fox, Russian sable, fisher.

From Time Magazine Archive

There were twenty-eight martens, one mink, two red foxes, one cross fox, a lynx and a wolf.

From Ungava Bob A Winter's Tale by Wallace, Dillon

Since then all cross fox have shown the mark.

From The Young Alaskans on the Trail by Hough, Emerson

A choice "cross" fox skin costing only $50 is far more beautiful, as a color proposition; but London joyously pays $2,500 or $3,000 for a single black-fox skin, to wear!

From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple

A breed dog and a male giant for seven mink and a cross fox?

From Back to God's Country and Other Stories by Curwood, James Oliver