Tux is a short form of tuxedo.

All the bumbling and ineffectual attempts of the animals to subdue the archrogue Reinaert add up to a strong impression that the epic was composed in this 13th-century form for the enjoyment of the newly confident 'middle' class of the Flemish cities.

his memory stinks like the snuff of a candle when it is put out […]

The people became clamorous to get land, and the rich and the great, we may believe, were perfectly determined not to give them any part of theirs.