ermined
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a word derived from
ermine.
erminenounan Old World weasel, Mustela erminea, having in its winter color phase a white coat with black at the tip of the tail.
Example Sentences
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Next came Fraud, and he had on,Like Eldon, an ermined gown;His big tears, for he wept well,Turned to mill-stones as they fell.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 8, 2013
By accident or design, man seems de ermined to upset the delicate balance of nature in Florida.
From Time Magazine Archive
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So many ermined peers and bejeweled peeresses were present that a journalistic wag observed there was a "tiara boom today."
From Time Magazine Archive
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The gum-chewing Daily News was fascinated with an ermined customer who puffed a fat cigar while she sipped a drink.
From Time Magazine Archive
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His appearance, however, was above his condition; he became his rags as proudly as a prince would have become his ermined robe.
From Auriol or, The Elixir of Life by W. Harrison Ainsworth