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What (who) is vair - definition
VARIED TINCTURE OR FUR IN HERALDRY
Vairy
![Heraldic vair, arms of [[Baron Beauchamp]]<br>and of [[Hellemmes]] in [[France]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Arms of Beauchamp (of Hatch).svg?width=200 "Heraldic vair, arms of [[Baron Beauchamp]]<br>and of [[Hellemmes]] in [[France]]")
![Barry of six vair and gules, arms of the [[Lords of Coucy]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Blason Coucy-le-Chateau.svg?width=200 "Barry of six vair and gules, arms of the [[Lords of Coucy]]")
![Geoffrey, Count of Anjou]] showing a vair-lined mantle](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/ Geoffrey of Anjou Monument.jpg?width=200 "Geoffrey, Count of Anjou]] showing a vair-lined mantle")
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vair
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¦ noun
1. fur obtained from a variety of red squirrel, used in the 13th and 14th centuries as a trimming or lining for garments.
2. Heraldry fur represented by interlocking rows of blue and white shield-shaped or bell-shaped figures.
Origin
ME: via OFr. from L. varius (see various).
Vair
·noun The skin of the squirrel, much used in the fourteenth century as fur for garments, and frequently mentioned by writers of that period in describing the costly dresses of kings, nobles, and prelates. It is represented in heraldry by a series of small shields placed close together, and alternately white and blue.
Vair
Vair (; from Latin varius "variegated"), originating as a processed form of squirrel fur, gave its name to a set of different patterns used in heraldry. Heraldic vair represents a kind of fur common in the Middle Ages, made from pieces of the greyish-blue backs of squirrels sewn together with pieces of the animals' white underbellies.
Wikipedia
Vair
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Vair (; from Latin varius "variegated"), originating as a processed form of squirrel fur, gave its name to a set of different patterns used in heraldry. Heraldic vair represents a kind of fur common in the Middle Ages, made from pieces of the greyish-blue backs of squirrels sewn together with pieces of the animals' white underbellies. Vair is the second-most common fur in heraldry, after ermine.
Examples of use of vair
1. But not English as Shakespeare knew it÷ I know ein bank vairon zee vild teem blouse / Vair oxslips und zee nodding wiolet grows . . . When you stagger out of things like that you start to believe the bad things you read (or, in my case, write) in the press about the present–day Edinburgh Festival.