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black fox

• 1 a rare color phase of the North American red fox, Vulpes fulva.

  • 1583  [Of Beastes for furres. Martens. Beauers. Foxes blacke and white.]
  • 1744  The East Main . . . is least known, there being no Factories fixed there for Trade, altho' the best Sable and black Fox Skins are got there.
  • 1907  The Indians say they get one genuine "black fox" in a lifetime.

• 2 the skin or pelt of a black fox.

  • 1820  (1823)  A silver fox, or otter, are [worth] two beavers and a black fox. . . .
  • 1863  The White Fox is very elegant and so is the Black Fox which is a Canadian fur. . . .
  • 1924  Gently . . . he removed the last clutch of O'Malley's fingers from the black fox--probably the pelt of ostensible contention.