FOXED • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Foxed

... become of this great pile of drawings, the object of so much work? No doubt, my family will keep the relic for a time; but, sooner or later, taking up too much space, shifted from cupboard to cupboard, from attic to attic, gnawed by the rats, foxed, dirtied and stained, it will fall into the hands of some little grandnephews who will cut it into squares to make paper caps. It is the universal rule. What our illusions have most fondly cherished comes to a pitiful end under the claws of ...

— The Life of the Fly - With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography • J. Henri Fabre