Middle English Dictionary Entry
ermīn adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | ermīn adj. Also armin. |
| Etymology | OF ermin. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Made of ermine fur; (b) her. having the fur ermine, consisting of white with black spots.
Associated quotations
a
- a1500(?a1475) Guy(4) (Cmb Ff.2.38)8425 : Veire and gryce and pylches armyne.
b
- a1500 Conq.Irel.(Rwl B.490)11 : Party per pale gules & ermyn a saltyer contrechaunged.
- (c1460) Bk.Arms in Anc.9 (Hrl 2169)174 : John Wyld beryth sabyll a cheveron ermyne iij wylkys of sylvyr. John Hemyngbourgh beryth ermyn a cheveron counterbataylyd goulys.