Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fox.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name of the fox in fable and poetry, in which the fox figures as cunning personified.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An appelation applied after the manner of a proper name to the fox. Same as
renard .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun UK a name in
European folklore for thered fox .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a conventional name for a fox used in tales following usage in the old epic `Reynard the Fox'
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I thought "Maugrim" was from Reynard, too, but the wolf in Reynard is Isengrim.
Archive 2005-12-01 Richard Nokes 2005
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I thought "Maugrim" was from Reynard, too, but the wolf in Reynard is Isengrim.
More on Maugrim Richard Nokes 2005
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A quaint and interesting cycle of animal stories was formed in the Middle Ages with the fox, called Reynard, as the hero or central character.
Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906
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I was in a cave yet higher, called Reynard's Kitchen.
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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Near it is a smaller cavity, called Reynard's Kitchen.
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A judge called Reynard's suit "junk science" and threw it out, but the brouhaha forced the cell phone industry to commit $25 million for safety studies.
The Shad Plank 2010
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The new report also discusses a program called Reynard, which it describes as "a seedling effort."
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H.B. M. screw propeller "Reynard," immediately got up steam, thirty men and officers from our ship were transferred to the little American steamer "Spark," and both vessels started in hot pursuit.
Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas W. Hastings Macaulay
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The method of giving individual names to the animals such as Reynard, Bruin, and Tibert, was current among the Folk before a literary form was given to
A Study of Fairy Tales Laura F. Kready
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Goethe took the story of "Reynard" for the subject of a great poem; and the famous painter Kaulbach has recently illustrated Goethe's version with perhaps the finest series of pictures with which a book was ever adorned.
The Comical Creatures from Wurtemberg Second Edition Unknown
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