reynard

Definitions

1. A male given name.
2. A fox.
   dialectal
3. A surname originating as a patronymic.
4. A name in European folklore for the red fox.
   literary, poetic
5. A locality in the Shire of Wellington and the Shire of Mansfield, south eastern Victoria, Australia.

Equivalents

Examples

“Reynard, in his thieving rambles, one night the summer before last⟳ visited the pleasure-gardens in Cornbury Park⟳, and there he found and carried off a hen pheasant while sitting on her nest. The same evening a barn-door hen, with a nide of pheasants also disappeared.”

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