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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
a color phase of the red fox, Vulpes ful, characterized by black fur having silvery-white guard hairs dispersed over the back, found rarely in nature but nowadays bred on fox farms.
See: silver fox
Quotations
1771
I went down the river, where I observed . . . a brace of silvers.
1956
Those two little traps of mine had bagged a silver.
2n.
the fur of the silver fox.
See: silver-fox skin
Quotations
1933
. . . he showed me a beautiful cross fox and a silver.
1944
. . . there hung a trapper's dream in furs! Red foxes, cross foxes, silvers; marten and mink; otter; wolf and wolverine; bundles of weasel skins; and many others!