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

Example Sentences

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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

Some nights later Breed passed a cross fox that had strayed down from the high country77 and had stepped into one of Collins' traps.

From The Yellow Horde by Bull, Charles Livingston

The value of the cross fox depends on the markings that give him his name.

From The Story of the Trapper by Laut, A. C.

Dis wan she dark cross fox, wort' mebbe-so, t'irty dolla.

From Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)

Wouldn't it be nice, now, if we could get a silver or a cross fox?

From Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North by Waldo, Fullerton