minever
Americannoun
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The master had a cappa or cope, such as a Cambridge Vice-Chancellor wears on Degree Days, with a border and hood of minever, such as Oxford proctors still wear, and a biretta or square cap.
From Life in the Medieval University by Rait, Robert S.
In the woods are found black and brown bears, the lynx, ermine, weasel, minever, squirrel, marmot, beaver, fox, elk, and the wild goat.
From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century by Benett, Léon
Both wore long slate-colored robes, furred with minever, girded and closed, with caps of the same stuff and hue.
From Notre-Dame De Paris by Hapgood, Isabel Florence
Grouer, sb. a kind of fur, 3.51; OF. gros vair, opposed to menu vair, minever.
From Erthe Upon Erthe by Various
There were two kinds, menu-vair corrupted into minever, and gros-vair, but I cannot learn clearly on what the distinction rested.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Yule, Henry
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