- a variation of miniver.
minever
Americannoun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Five—a cloak of fur turned up with minever, a gold goblet with stand and cover, and a box of rose-colored sugar.
From The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"Well, my worthy dealer in minever, what do you say now to the Lorraine jokes?" whispered Ruggiero.
From Catherine De Medici by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
There lie two or three daggers of more than ordinary workmanship, and by them a silver cup or two, and again more than one hood lined with minever.
From Old English Libraries by Ernest Albert Savage
He saw the fantastically-dressed driver and footman, and the brilliant mass of color surrounded by minever furs, and he knew it was Madame Jacobus, out to defy any other sleigh to approach her.
From A Song of a Single Note A Love Story by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
They did so, and entering, found the earl lying on his mantle of minever, which covered him.
From The Boy Crusaders A Story of the Days of Louis IX. by John G. (John George) Edgar
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
