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  1. noun The thick coat of soft hair covering the skin of a mammal, such as a fox or beaver.
  2. noun The hair-covered, dressed pelt of such a mammal, used in the making of garments and as trimming or decoration.
  3. noun A garment made of or lined with the dressed pelt of a mammal.
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  • When she set Nightwitch down, the kitten glared back toward the mouth of the tunnel, then sat down and began determinedly washing a spot on her back where the fur was a little singed. —  1
  • Gyla was the silver wolf girl and her fur was all over her body. —  F ;SF; - vol 098 issue 01 - January 2000
  • She was tiny still, the size of a small dog, and her fur was a swirl of orange and black and white. —  Yasmine Galenorn - [Sisters of the Moon 03] - Darkling
  • When his thanes opened the door, they saw the wolf, and none dared harm her, for her fur was as white as snow and they knew her for a supernatural creature. —  Carey, Jaqueline - Kushiel's Dart orig
  • Karl Lagerfeld's ignorance on the manner in which animals are killed for their fur is appalling. —  British Blogs
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fur:   furs
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  1. Middle English furre, probably from furren, to line with fur, from Old French forrer, from forre, fuerre, sheath, lining, of Germanic origin; see pā- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also furre; from Middle English furre, sometimes forre, for, fur, pelt, from Old French forre, fuerre, fuere, foure, fourre, fore, a case, sheath (hence, like case, ‘hide, pelt, fur’—a sense not actually found in Old French: but see the verb), = Spanish Portuguese fo, ro, lining, = Italian fodero, a sheath, scabbard, lining, fur; of Teutonic origin: from Goth, fōdr, a sheath, = Anglo-Saxon fōdder, a ease, Old High German fuotar, German futter, a sheath, case, etc.: see fother. Hence forel, q. v.
  2. from Middle English furren, line with fur, from Old French farrer, fourrer, French fourrer, sheathe, fur, = Spanish Portuguese forrar, line, = Italian foderare, line, line with fur: from the noun.
  3. Scots, = English furrow, from Middle English furwe, etc. See furrow.
 

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