“The same pattern can be shown in other colours, when it is known as vairy, and the colours must be specified, e.g. Ferrers, Vairy or and gules.”
“The red and gold hint at the Boulogne connection, and the Vair of the second and third quarters hint at Guines whose colours of blue and white were also borne vairy.”
“Naturellement, 'e eez vairy Frainch, wiz a 'eady whiff of tradition about him, like the cork in a fine claret or a very runny piece of brie.”
varriated
(heraldry) Cut in the form of vair; battlemented with solid projections and crenelles, both pointed bluntly, but in the latter case reversed.
