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A book stained with reddish-brown marks is said to be foxed. Of course, the stain is so called because it is of the colour of a fox.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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