...and weasels, has some connexion with the old Fr. vair, and also with the Mcd.Lat tares. "Menuvair. Minever; the furre of ermines mixed, or spotted, with the furre of the weetell " (Cotgrave.) " Vares," according to Du Cange, were a "species qu.'j'ilutu tnurium Ponticorum...

...the grayish colour of some eyes, also that which our Blasonners call verry, 'Menu vair,' Mineuer ; the furre of Ermines mixed or spotted with the furre of the Weesell called Gris." There is not much doubt but that the glass slipper of Cinderella originated in the similarity of sound...

...the grayish colour of some eyes, also thai which our Blasonners call verry. 'Menu vair,' Mineuer ; the furre of Ermines mixed or spotted with the furre of the Weesell called Gris." There is not much doubt but that the glass slipper of Cinderella originated in the similarity of sound...

...beast that beares it. Vair, a rich furre of ermines powdered thicke with blue mires, &c. Menu vair, minever ; the furre of ermines mixed, or spotted with the furre of the weeiell called Grit." The first element in minnesinger is quite distinct. Minne is old German for love,...

...have been the English signification notwithstanding Cotgrave's divergent explanation of miniver as 'the furre of Ermines mixed, or spotted, with the furre of the Weesell' (OED). Linthicum (p. 226), on the evidence of a passage in the 1631 edition of Stow's Annals (p. 1039),...