White winter fur of the stoat, usually with black tips or "spots", restricted to nobility and high clergy and frequently used in ceremonial clothing.
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Examples for "ermine"
Examples for "ermine"
1Many beavers are in the packs, much marten and fox and ermine.
2The judge rose again, solemnly, in all the majesty of his ermine.
3White ermine was meant to express moral purity; white waistcoats were not.
4Above the ermine, on one side of the sign, were the words:-
5She was in evening dress, all in white, with an ermine wrap.
1I want to trim it with white ermine fur, and the tails.
2Pantalaimon's white ermine fur bristled: she felt it tickling her neck.
3One found there many clothes of sable and ermine fur.
4Knights - velvet, branched satin, ermine fur
5Ermine furs, for instance, are absurd on a woman of forty-five or fifty.
6Rose de Vigne, exquisitely fair in ruby velvet and ermine furs paused on the verandah, looking pensively forth.
7"Bring me the ermine furs, girl!" said the Countess, shivering.
8"The very same," said Father Beaver, "and Ermine fur is more valuable than our own.
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