ermine

All the old ladies in both families had got out their faded sables and yellowing ermines, and the smell of camphor from the front pews almost smothered the faint spring scent of the lilies banking the altar.

That is he in the rose-colored doublet with the ermine."

Lucille, after all, do you wonder that the police are looking for a woman in black with an ermine toque?

(fine girls of sixteen and seventeen) had grey beaver hats, then in fashion, shaded with ostrich plumes, and from under the brim of this graceful head-dress fell a profusion of light tresses, elaborately curled; the elder lady was enveloped in a costly velvet shawl, trimmed with ermine, and she wore a false front of French curls.

His dress was a tunic of forest green, furred at the throat and cuffs with what was called minever; a kind of fur inferior in quality to ermine, and formed, it is believed, of the skin of the grey squirrel.

On the front benches were already a number of venerable figures, muffled in ermine, velvet, and scarlet.

This is the best of silk and camel's hair, real ostrich feathers, and an expensive ermine muff.

Emi Wada, the costume designer, has reproduced in loving detail the yellow satin jacket trimmed in ermine, the starched white wimple and the pearly earrings of the paintings.

Will Johnny Depp trade in Ed Wood's angora sweater for something even more outrageous, like sequined hot pants, an ermine cape, and a flaming candelabra?

The brown-coated weasel remains an effective hunter when it dons the winter white of the ermine.

And that weird external treatment of his great church in Prague: perhaps those stone blocks proud of purple brickwork represent ermine, fit to clothe the Sacred Heart of Jesus, King of Bohemia.

Equally priceless is Morris's account of the ermine toilet seat (complete with paws!) that Luce fashioned from a hand-me-down coat belonging to her mother-in-law.

On one arm perches a squirrel, Holbein's casual acknowledgment of the challenge posed by Leonardo da Vinci's celebrated portrait of Cecilia Gallerani with an ermine. "Ten million pounds!" said Derek, beginning to wave his arms around enthusiastically: "Ten million pounds!