1) Brown or white weasel 2) Certain weasel 3) Coronation robe material 4) Coronation robe trim 5) Critter in a white coat 6) Dignity of a judge 7) Elegant fur 8) Emblem of purity and honor 9) European miner wore fur 10) Expensive fur 11) Expensive wrap 12) Fabulous fur 13) Fancy fur 14) Fine coat 15) Fine fur
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1) Fur 2) Stoat
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[heraldry] Ermine in heraldry is a `fur`, or varied tincture, consisting of a white background with a pattern of black shapes representing the winter coat of the stoat (a species of weasel with white fur and a black-tipped tail). The linings of medieval coronation cloaks and some other garments, usually reserved to use by high-ranking peers...
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• (n.) The fur of the ermine, as prepared for ornamenting garments of royalty, etc., by having the tips of the tails, which are black, arranged at regular intervals throughout the white. • (n.) A valuable fur-bearing animal of the genus Mustela (M. erminea), allied to the weasel; the stoat. It is found in the northern parts of Asia, Europ...
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(from the article `heraldry`) ...(silver), one of the colours gules (red), azure (blue), vert (green), purpure (purple), or sable (black), or one of the furs ermine (a white field ...
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any of several northern weasel (q.v.) species of the genus Mustela, family Mustelidae, called ermine especially during the winter-white colour ... [2 related articles]
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1. <zoology> A valuable fur-bearing animal of the genus Mustela (M. Erminea), allied to the weasel; the stoat. It is found in the northern parts of Asia, Europe, and America. In summer it is brown, but in winter it becomes white, except the tip of the tail, which is always black. ... 2. The fur of the ermine, as prepared for ornamenting garme...
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Er'mine noun [ Old French
ermine , French
hermine , probably of German origin; confer Old High German
harmo , German
hermelin , akin to Lithuanian
szarm... ,
szarmonys , weasel, confer Anglo-Saxon
hearma ; but confer also Late Latin
armelinus ,...
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Er'mine transitive verb To clothe with, or as with, ermine. « The snows that have
ermined it in the winter.»
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Ermine is a name for the stoat in its winter dress of a white coat which it assumes in winter in cold countries. The term is also used to describe the white fur obtained from a suitable stoat in winter.
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In heraldry, ermine is a fur represented by an argent field, tufted with black. Ermines is the reverse of ermine, being black, spotted or timbered with argent. Erminois is the same as ermine, except that or is substituted for argent.
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n] - the expensive white fur of the ermine 2. [n] - mustelid of northern hemisphere in its white winter coat
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ermine An animal of the weasel tribe (Mustela Erminea), an inhabitant of northern countries, called in England a “stoat”, whose fur is reddish brown in summer, but in winter (in northern regions) wholly white, except the tip of the tail, which is always black.
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shorttail weasel noun mustelid of northern hemisphere in its white winter coat
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The stoat during winter, when its coat becomes white. In northern latitudes the coat becomes completely white, except for a black tip on the tail, but in warmer regions the back may remain brownish. The fur is used commercially
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