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A white field scattered with small black tail-shaped marks.
Also known as: Ermines, Erminois
The best known heraldic fur: white powdered with black ermine spots, representing a lining of winter stoat pelts. Neither a metal nor a colour, which is why the rule of tincture treats furs separately.
A heraldic fur consisting of a white field strewn with small black marks representing the black tail-tips of the stoat in winter coat.
Classed as a fur rather than as a metal or a colour, which places it outside the rule of tincture: a fur may be laid on either without breaching it.
Associated with rank in dress and ceremony — ermine linings marked royal and peerage robes — though in blazon it is a tincture like any other and carries no automatic implication of rank.
A white field scattered with small black marks, each shaped like a tail-tip with three points above it.
The two principal heraldic furs.