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er·mine
/ ˈərmən/
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n.
(pl. same or ermines
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a stoat, esp. when in its white winter coat.
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the white fur of the stoat, used for trimming garments, esp. ceremonial robes.
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Heraldry
fur represented as black spots on a white ground, as a heraldic tincture.
ORIGIN: Middle English: from Old French hermine, probably from medieval Latin (mus) Armenius ‘Armenian (mouse).’
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Ermine: the white weasel is no wimp!(Animal Angles)
Magazine article from: Odyssey; 3/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...corn? Just call the ermine infantry! Best known...On the other hand, ermines like to eat chickens...version of a ferret, the ermine is pure white in winter...When hunting, the ermine perches on its short...those can't be found, ermines will eat birds, eggs...
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 "Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)")
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ENGINEER BACKING EXTENSION ERMINE STREET PROJECT STILL ON FRONT BURNER.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 11/1/2005; 692 words
; ...A city traffic engineer says extending Ermine Street to Golden Valley Road would reduce...than be impacted, but will people (on) Ermine be affected? Yes.'' Traffic from Brookfield...but the developer had planned to extend Ermine as a condition of building The Keystone...
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Morphological and Molecular Discrimination of Mustela erminea (Ermines) and M. frenata (Long-tailed Weasels) in Eastern Canada
Magazine article from: Northeastern Naturalist; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...M. erminea Linnaeus (ermine), and M. nivalix Linnaeus...Long-tailed weasels and ermines are reported to be sympatric...New Brunswick. As for the ermine, its range extends throughout...long-tailed weasels from ermines date back 50 years and have...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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Lordly affairs of stoat; Tale of tails: The black spots in lordly ermine came from the tail of the stoat (inset).
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 11/14/2008; 700+ words
; ...anything) by the rows of dots on the ermine in the regalia of members of the House...silk velvet, traditionally trimmed with ermine with lines of black spots. Parliamentary...turning white and becomes known as an ermine. Even in winter, its tail remains black...
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Masarik, Ermine
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 6/1/2009; 419 words
; Masarik, Ermine (Nee Waraksa) Rose to Eternal Life on...relatives and friends. A celebration of Ermine's life will be Wed., June 3, 9...Whitnall Ave. Interment Holy Sepulcher. Ermine's life was one of faith and family with...
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Encounter with an ermine
Magazine article from: Training & Development; 4/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...as his hiking encounter with a playful ermine in the Teton Mountains. Personal transformation...and wilderness settings; fortuitous THE ERMINE ENCOUNTER It was October 1977, Joseph...walked along, he was surprised by an ermine that appeared out of the deep snow about...
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Pomposity of honours exposed by newly-ennobled Socialists in ermine
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 6/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...directing the pupils and me clad in an ermine-trimmed red velvet gown with gold facings...we have all these Socialists taking the ermine on, the coronet set upon the carapace...men, all of them will be there in the ermine and knee breeches. (The late Lord Tonypandy...
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Da Vinci work making rare U.S. showing 'Lady With Ermine' opens next month in Milwaukee
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 8/13/2002; ; 696 words
; ...Vinci's 15th century "Lady With an Ermine," one of only three portraits by the...public museum in 1802--"Lady With an Ermine" has traveled from castle gallery to...great intelligence," Winters said. The ermine Cecilia caresses--or teases?--in...
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Four sisters reveal how they have stayed married to 'the right man' for more than 50 years. (Ermine, Jessica, Ella, and Lurline, daughters of the late Jessie and Joseph Pearson)
Magazine article from: Jet; 10/27/1997; 700+ words
; When Ermine Pearson got married 63 years ago, her...she was marrying "the right man." When Ermine Pearson's three sisters got married years...daughter's wedding. The four sisters, Ermine, Lurline, Ella and Jessica, and their...
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Vibrant hues return to Leonardo masterpiece 'Lady with an Ermine' with virtual restoration
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 12/4/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...of Leonardo da Vinci's Lady with an Ermine, but the scan has revealed bolder hues...red and blue dress as she holds a white ermine. Historians believe the subject was Cecilia...digital scan also revealed a much whiter ermine, as well as a more vibrantly colored...
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ermine
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
ermine a stoat, especially in its white winter...x2018;Armenian (mouse)’. Ermine also denotes the white fur of the stoat...the spots represent the dark tips of the ermines' tails, and are usually elaborated into...
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Ermine Street
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Ermine Street Saxon name for the Roman road in Britain that ran from London to Lincoln...which the road passed. The road from Silchester to Gloucester was also called Ermine Street. Bibliography: See I. D. Margary, Roman Roads in Britain (3d...
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Furs
Book article from: Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages
...soft and luxurious furs from mink, sable, ermine, fox, or muskrat. The 1950s saw a return...time, the 1920s, which saw such movies as Ermine and Rhinestones (1925), Orchids and Ermine (1927), and The Lady in Ermine (1927...
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Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
...doo wop. In 1955, one group, the Ermines — school friends Herman Santiago...Frankie Lymo, joined the group that the Ermines, now renamed the Coupe de Villes, became...x201D; By late 1955, the once Ermines and Coupe de Villes, changed their name...
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Rutherford, (Dame) Margaret
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...1936—film debut in Dusty Ermine ; 1939—first appearance as...May 1972. Films as Actress: 1936 Dusty Ermine (Hideout in the Alps ) (Vorhaus...making her first film in 1936, Dusty Ermine. She had a highly unorthodox appearance...
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