minever

American  

[min-uh-ver] / ˈmɪn ə vər /

noun

1. a variant of miniver.

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Example Sentences

“For our lady the queen’s use, sixty ells of fine linen cloth, forty ells of dark green cloth, a skin of minever, a small brass pan, and eight towels.”

From The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries by Menzies, Sutherland, fl. 1840-1883

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

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.

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 Savage, Ernest Albert

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