A valuable fur-bearing animal of the genus Mustela (M. erminea), allied to the weasel; the stoat. It is found in the northern parts of Asia, Europe, and America. In summer it is brown, but in winter it becomes white, except the tip of the tail, which is always black.
The fur of the ermine, as prepared for ornamenting garments of royalty, etc., by having the tips of the tails, which are black, arranged at regular intervals throughout the white.
One of the furs. See Fur (Her.)
A fur consisting of black, highly-stylised ermine tails ( "spots" ) on a white FIELD.
A fur depicted in white with black patterns and tail
One of the furs used in blazoning, representing the skin of the little animal of that name. A field of ermine is white with black spots of a particular shape. The animal ermine is scarcely known in heraldry, although its fur is widely borne
adj. in white or silver, powdered with black ermine spots. n. a weasel prized for its fur.
the expensive white fur of the ermine
mustelid of northern hemisphere in its white winter coat
a weasel in its white winter coat
(n.) A type of mink (mustelid) that turns white in wintertime, ermine is the term used for the mink during winter when it's coat is completely white.
Ermine and its related furs, Counter-Ermine, Erminois, and Ermines are a very stylized representation of the tails of small furry creatures (Weasles, stoats, ermine, all the same thing....) into a larger cloth. The fur of an ermine is white, and the tip of it's tail is black; thus, Ermine. Black with white spots is Counter-Ermine or Ermines. Gold with white spots is called Erminois, and the reverse, black with gold spots, is Pean.
background pattern, black tails on white.
A repeating sable pattern on an argent background. The pattern consists of three lines extending from a common point toward the corners of a triangle. Above the three lines are a three points. An ASCII representation is below. , '
In heraldry, ermine is one of the furs used in blazon, representing the skin of the stoat. In winter the stoat has white fur and a black tail; heraldic ermine represents a number of skins sewn together, forming a pattern of sable (black) spots on argent (white). The tail or "ermine spot" has been represented in many ways; the illustrations here show the most usual form.
