White fur

Usage examples of ermine.

It was then that Atheling Radgar went on a royal procession, accompanied by Aylwin and a few other twelve-year-old boys and girls, all dressed in court finery of purple and ermine.

Hiawatha Led the strangers to his wigwam, Seated them on skins of bison, Seated them on skins of ermine, And the careful old Nokomis Brought them food in bowls of basswood, Water brought in birchen dippers, And the calumet, the peace-pipe, Filled and lighted for their smoking.

Beneath lay ells of costly silks, samites, cendals, and damasks, as well as pelts of ermine and sable.

Her sleek brown hair was covered by an ermine shako tied with wide grosgrain ribbons dyed to match the coquelicot velvet of her erminelined driving pelisse.

Still clad in the blue dress with ermine trim, she looked asleep inside an encasement of glass.

Winter did not daunt him, and when the snows came and the foxes and ermines turned their coats to snowiest white, he was one of the rare ones who continued to go out, he and his piebald pony, a shaggy beast as gay in its coat as the city with its painting, looking out on the icy world through a shag of yellow mane and forelock that let all the world wonder whether there was a horse within it.

Royal pomp and grandeur, such truly as should one day gain for them an inweaving and figurement--in the place of bees, ermine tufts, and their various present decorations--upon the august great robes back-flowing and foaming over the gaspy page-boys.

Her friend Miss Chadwick wore a sky-blue jaconet gown with an ermine tippet, and a white satin bonnet with blue ruching and a large blue bow tied off to one side of her heart-shaped face.

Her mother with her regal plumes and lappets and an ermine cloak over her white satin gown was like a snow queen.

After all, we bear, azure, a wivern or, darting fire, ongle gules, and scaled vert, a chief ermine, from the time of Francois I.

How they clothe their figures in every conceivable splendor of orphrey and ermine, in jewels and shining armor and rich stuff of silk and samite, in robe of scarlet or in yellow dalmatic!

He dashed after polecats and stoats -- ermine in summer-brown coats -- and backed off when the dauntless predators held their ground.

Casks of brandy from Shoaks, a bale of ermine skins from the Mountain Kingdom, and colored glass beads from Tilth, wrought into a tapestry that could be hung over a window.

The Wanax Ganton wore his finest robes under a cloak of ermine and the Great Crown of Drantos.

Keith Brassard and living in Cheshire Point with her ermine coat and her sable coat and her chinchilla wrap, with a big solid house and heavy furniture and charge accounts.