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cross ((2)) 2

• 1 n. a color-phase of the red fox, Vulpes fulva, marked with a cross over the shoulders.

  See also: cross-fox  

• 2 n. the skin of the cross-fox.

  • 1933  I got . . . forty weasels, 139 muskrats, two crosses and a red.
  • 1956  Red foxes, crosses and silvers are holding up, but black foxes are not in demand.