2. Noun. The discolouration of printed material with brown marks ¹
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Definition of Foxing
1. a piece of material used to cover the upper portion of a shoe [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foxing
Literary usage of Foxing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Shoe Industry by Frederick James Allen (1922)
"Several related or similar operations, also, are performed in the foxing ...
Positions in the foxing Department. The usual positions here are these: 1. ..."
2. A Trip to British Honduras, and to San Pedro, Republic of Honduras by Charles Swett (1868)
"We moved on lte course . from the -o-tD aa, Santa^na,and^a a.jsi crossed a stream
known ^fte base o£ the m ^ e to -- * *i« miles from here, foxing here rt ..."
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