wHAT DOES THE THE TERM “FEATHER-FOXES” MEAN?
Re: Cassell’s History of England, vol. 6, p.486 [Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1862: …”Blucher had a fixed and most rational contempt of diplomatists, whom he dubbed FEATHER-FOXES, or, as we phrase it, quill-drivers…”
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I don’t know what “feather-foxes” means, and I couldn’t find the definition, but according to your quote, a synonym of the term “feather-foxes” was “quill-drivers,” so I looked that up instead.
According to the website mentioned below, (and “The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose”),
a “quill driver” is: “A clerk, scribe, or hackney writer.”
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