Meaning & use
Vair
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A heraldic fur pattern representing squirrel fur, depicted as alternating blue and white shield-shaped patches.
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The knight's coat of arms featured a bold pattern of vair along the border.
Medieval heralds used vair as one of several stylized fur patterns in coats of arms.
A note on using this word
Some scholars argue that Cinderella's famed 'glass slipper' was originally a mistranslation of a slipper made of vair, French for squirrel fur.
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