Definitions for vair

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IPA: /vɛər/

Vair is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in vair (airv).

Definitions for vair

noun

1. a fur much used for lining and trimming garments in the 13th and 14th centuries, generally assumed to have been that of a variety of squirrel with a gray back and white belly. Compare miniver (def 1).
2. Heraldry. a fur represented by a pattern of escutcheon- or bell-shaped figures, each outlining the adjacent sides of those beside it so that the figures alternate vertically and horizontally both in position and in tinctures, of which argent and azure are common.

Origin of vair

1250-1300; Middle English Old French Latin varium something particolored; see various

Examples for vair

Unless the colour of the fur is named, vair is always argent and azure.

Bartsch interprets the name as vair fils, 'parti-coloured son.'

Then to his knights they gave for garments furs both gray and vair.

His son reverted to the plain shield of vair, or, and gules.

Potent is like vair, but the skins are differently shaped, like thick T's.

Whether the slipper were of verre or of vair is a matter of no moment.

They were clad in scarlet garments lined with pearl grey and vair.

It was she who prompted madame to clothe us with her clothes of vair.

The connection with vair is much clearer in the latter than in the former.

Ish maheen a tha in, a vair dheelish machree—It is I who am with you, beloved mother of my heart!