Minever

Related to Minever: miniver

Min´e`ver


n. 1. Same as Miniver.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Five--a cloak of fur turned up with minever, a gold goblet with stand and cover, and a box of rose-colored sugar.
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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.
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Both wore long slate-colored robes, furred with minever, girded and closed, with caps of the same stuff and hue.
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Minever mourned the ripe renown That made so many a name so fragrant; He mourned Romance, now on the town, And Art, a vagrant.
What Miniver Cheevy means: E.A. Robinson's art made joy out of despair
The Virgin invariably wears a dark blue gown, sometimes over a minever kirtle with plain undergarment, to stress her high status.
A forgotten Assumption of the Virgin: the reredos at St Andrew, Sandford-on-Thames, Oxfordshire
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