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What does vair mean?

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Noun
  1. (archaic) A type of fur from a squirrel with a black back and white belly, much used on garments in the Middle Ages.
  2. (heraldry) An heraldic fur formed by a regular tessellation of blue and white bell shapes.
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One morning this maidservant, with a basket of cabbage greens, passed by Bito who, beforehand, had thought to dress in his finest robes of rich vair.
Bran wore grey breeches and white doublet, his sleeves and collar trimmed with vair.
A thousand men dressed in vair followed Beduerus the butler, similarly attired, offering various drinks of every sort in goblets.
There's the Earl of Grantham – or rather, actor Hugh Bonneville – crossing the courtyard looking vair dashing in his military uniform.
There are 45 species of mammals such as brown bear, wolf, fox, badger, beech marten, vair, bobcat, and even a small number of leopards.
The vair pattern represents the skins of animals, and thus symbolizes the fur trade that stimulated the early settlement of the Canadian West.

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