The Quakers. So called from George Fox, who organised the sect (1624–1690).
“His muzzle, formed of opposition stuff,
Firm as a Foxite, would not lose its ruff.”
Dr. Wolcott [Peter Pindar]: The Razor Seller.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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