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• n  the expensive white fur of the ermine
• n  mustelid of northern hemisphere in its white winter coat

• The reflection must be that of normality clothed in ermine, and while the institution remains beyond reproach, the wearers of the ermine must show themselves warm and human .
• The Most Eminent and Reverend Lord Cardinals will attend it wearing their woolen robes with plain rochets and capes of violet silk with ermine fur.
• Donning a lion mask and faux-ermine cape he begins to think of himself as "the groundskeeper.

• shorttail weasel
• Mustela erminea

News & Articles

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• Four Arts plans class on art masterpieces
  Joan Lipton is slated to explore the qualities that make an artwork a masterpiece Aug. 14 at The Society of the Four Arts’ Dixon Education Building. The class, which is part of the Campus on the Lake series, will be offered at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. Works featured will include the Venus of Willendorf , which dates from 24,000 to 22,000 B.C., Leonardo da Vinci’s Lady with an Ermine, Francisco de Goya ...
  July 25, 2013 - Palm Beach Daily News

Quotes

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• Keith Richards in CNN International
  I don't want to step out onstage with someone wearing a coronet and sporting the old ermine,Richards said.
• Da Vinci in Village Voice
  The ermine is so fastidious that he will allow himself to be caught by hunters before he will take refuge in a muddy spot,wrote Leonardo da Vinci in his Bestiary.
• Alex Salmond in BBC News
  Mr Salmond said: "How glad I am that this party will not be nominating any Scottish patriot to sit on the ermine benches between Lord Archer and Lord Watson."