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Foxed   Listen
adjective
Foxed  adj.  
1.
Discolored or stained; said of timber, and also of the paper of books or engravings.
2.
Repaired by foxing; as, foxed boots.





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"Foxed" Quotes from Famous Books



... All these forgotten celebrities, or half-celebrities, all these old young beauties of whom Theroulde spoke, came to life again for him, fascinated him with an unexpected charm and a piquant sense of familiarity. Servien pictured them as he had seen them represented in the old foxed lithographs that litter the second-hand bookstalls along the Quais, wearing the hair in flat bandeaux with a jewel on a gold chain in the middle of the forehead, or else in heavy ringlets a l'Anglaise brushing ...
— The Aspirations of Jean Servien • Anatole France
... and the dances? The tunes that Time may not restore? And the tomes where Divinity prances? And the pamphlets where Heretics roar? They have ceased to be even a bore, - The Divine, and the Sceptic who mocks, - They are "cropped," they are "foxed" to the core, - They are all in ...
— Rhymes a la Mode • Andrew Lang


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