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Answer for the clue "Heraldic fur ", 4 letters:
vair

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context archaic English) A type of fur from a squirrel with a black back and white belly, much used on garments in the Middle Ages. 2 (context tincture English) An heraldic fur formed by a regular tessellation of blue and white bell shapes.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Vair may refer to: Vair , a heraldic tincture Vair (river) , a tributary of the Meuse in Lorraine, France Vair, Texas , a town in the United States Guillaume du Vair (1556–1621), French author and lawyer Steve Vair (1886–1959), Canadian professional ice ...

Usage examples of vair.

Vair introduced as Pinard Tzarion, Inquisitor-General of the Army of Alketch.

Dancer was draped in bardings of snowy white wool emblazoned with the grey direwolf of House Stark, while Bran wore grey breeches and white doublet, his sleeves and collar trimmed with vair.

In silk and vair, golden chains, ostrich plumes, cordovan hose, slashed and puffed sleeves, curl-toed shoes, the English showed like peacocks in a hen yard.

Heralds have not omitted this order or imitation thereof, while they Symbollically adorn their Scuchions with Mascles, Fusils, and Saltyrs, and while they dispose the figures of Ermins, and vaired coats in this Quincuncial method.

And as folk will often go to the court, though they have no concern whatever there, it so befell that Maso del Saggio went thither one morning in quest of one of his friends, and there chancing to set eyes on this Messer Niccola, where he sate, deemed him a fowl of no common feather, and surveyed him from head to foot, observing that the vair which he wore on his head was all begrimed, that he carried an ink-horn at his girdle, that his gown was longer than his robe, and many another detail quite foreign to the appearance of a man of birth and breeding, of which that which he deemed most notable was a pair of breeches, which, as he saw (for the judge's outer garments being none too ample were .