Citations:erminites

English citations of erminites

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɝmɪnaɪts/

{{lb|en|tincture}}: In blazon, coloured with a heraldic fur like ermine but with a red hair on each side of the black spots. (This could be discerned only if the spots are very large, and is of very rare and late usage.)

• 1830, Thomas Robson (engraver.), The British herald, or Cabinet of armorial bearings of the nobility & gentry of Great Britain & Ireland:

  Glover, [Norf. 1611; Romney, Kent; and London; also borne by glover, Somerset Herald, Temp. Elizabeth] sa. a chev. erminites, betw. three crescents ar. - Crest, an eagle displ. ar. charged on the breast with three spots of erminites. (Another crest, a dragon pass. az.)

• 1909, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry, page 78:

  From ermine has been evolved the following variations, viz. ermines, erminois, pean, and erminites. "Ermines" is a black field with white ermine spots [...] Planché mentions still another, as does Parker in his "Glossary of Heraldry," namely "erminites," which is supposed to be white, with black ermine spots and a red hair on each side of the spot. I believe there is no instance known of any such fur in British armory. It is not mentioned in Ströhl's "Heraldic Atlas," nor can I find any foreign instance, so that who invented it, or for what purpose it was invented, I cannot say; and I think it should be relegated, with abatements and the seize quartiers of Jesus Christ, to the category of the silly inventions of former heraldic writers, not of former heralds, for I know of no official act which had recognised the existence of erminites.