Definitions for Ermine

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Ermine er·mine

Spelling: [ur-min]

IPA: /ˈɜr mɪn/

Ermine is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 74 anagrams from letters in Ermine (eeimnr).

Definitions for Ermine

noun

1. an Old World weasel, Mustela erminea, having in its winter color phase a white coat with black at the tip of the tail. Compare stoat.
2. any of various weasels having a white winter coat.
3. the lustrous, white, winter fur of the ermine, often having fur from the animal's black tail tip inserted at intervals for contrast.
4. the rank, position, or status of a king, peer, or judge, especially one in certain European countries who wears, or formerly wore, a robe trimmed with ermine, as on official or state occasions.
5. Heraldry. a fur, consisting of a conventional representation of tails, often with a pattern of dots, sable on argent.

adjective

1. made of, covered, or adorned with ermine.

Origin of Ermine

1150-1200; Middle English Old French (h)ermine, noun use of feminine of (h)ermin (masculine adj.) Latin Armenius, short for Armenius (mūs) Armenian (rat)

Examples for Ermine

Yet prouder was I of this sober apparel than ever king of his ermine.

The ermine was also written about by Leonardo as a symbol of her purity.

The household of Ithamar, in robes of violet, lined with ermine.

And, over all, there hung in graceful folds an ermine robe of spotless white.

Papa's models are all in horse-hair wigs,—fat mummies in ermine!

The Countess deftly steered the lifeboat, a resolute and unlikely vision in her ermine and pearls.

I am a Judge, but they shall see that the ermine embarrasses me just as little.

Oh, yes, and then the robins like cockatoos and squirrels like a princess's ermine!

From hunted sense of unmerited outlawry I have passed to that of 'ermine' function.

It may be a visual pun on her surname, since the Greek for ermine or stoat is galay.