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Colfax

name
/ˈkoʊlfæks/

Etymology

From coal + fox, describing a fox with black marks.

  1. inherited from *púḱsos✻ — “the tailed one”
  2. inherited from *fuhsaz✻ — “fox”
  3. inherited from *fuhs✻
  4. inherited from fox — “fox”
  5. inherited from fox
  6. formed as colfax — “coal + fox”

Definitions

  1. An English surname.

  2. A number of places in the United States

    A number of places in the United States:

  3. A community in Saskatchewan, Canada

    A community in Saskatchewan, Canada; named for the city in Iowa.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA