cross fox
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cross fox
First recorded in 1765–75
Example Sentences
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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
The cross fox is a cross between the black or silver and the red fox.
From Hudson Bay by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
All de cross fox pret' good fox, too.
From Connie Morgan in the Fur Country by Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)
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
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)
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