ermine
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- noun
- /ˈɜrmɪn/
:
ermin
- I discovered that a stoat is an ermine or short-tailed weasel, and a snark is similar to a snipe, a bird that is impossible to find.
That's where I was able to find some nice soft ermine.
- That's where I was able to find some nice soft ermine.
Examples
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Pearl trim, silver pins, and ermine scraps lay strewn about the carpeted floor.
Fiction book (2002) -
Ermine is another name for the stoat.
Blog text (7) -
Sometimes the term "ermine" is reserved for the animal during the winter when the fur is white.
Blog text (7) -
Some change color: weasels, for example, molt to white, becoming winter ermines.
Academic text (1991) -
They may find sable, or squirrel, or ermine fur.
Academic text (2005) -
People who can interpret the ermine trim, the scarlet cowl, the dark blue ribands.
Fiction book (1997) -
Scarlett draped the coverlet around her shoulders as if it were an imperial robe of ermine.
Fiction book (1991) -
Not nearly all the visited traps hold weasels today, but enough do, each frozen ermine form dropped in careful triumph into the gunnysack at the trapper's waist.
Fiction book (1993) -
The royal cloak was elegantly adorned with a trim of ermine fur, emphasizing its luxury.
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In winter, the weasel's fur turns white, allowing the ermine to blend in with the snowy landscape.
Synonyms
A small animal like a weasel that turns white in winter except for its black tail tip
A small mammal that eats meat and turns white in winter
How Small
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ermine comes from old European names for a small weasel, for example the French hermine, which turns 'white' in winter to hide in the snow. So an ermine is the little animal, especially when it has its white winter coat.