[f. prec. + -ED.]
1. Trimmed with fox-fur.
1579. Gosson, The Schoole of Abuse (Arb.), 49. Take heed of the foxefurd nightcap, I meene those schoolemen, that cry out vpon Mars calling him the bloody God.
1606. Dekker, Devils Answ., Wks. (Grosart), II. 139. Shall my Fox-furde gownes be lockt vp from me?
2. Wearing fox-fur, wearing a fox-furred gown.
1591. Greene, Disc. Coosnage (1859), 12. Those Fox-furd Gentlemen that hyde vnder their gownes faced with foynes, more falshood then all the Conny-catchers in England.
1597. Pilgr. Parnass., v. (1886), 21.
Philom. I thinke not worse of faire Parnassus hill | |
For that it wants that sommers golden clay, | |
The idol of the foxfurd usurer. |
1648. Hunting of Fox, 38. Some few of the Fox-furred Aldermen.