{{Short description|White fur from ermine or red squirrels}} {{For|the 1942 film|Mrs. Miniver}} [[File:Van Eyck - Arnolfini Portrait.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|The ''Arnolfini Portrait'' by Jan van Eyck (1434); the woman wears a dress trimmed with miniver]] '''Miniver''', an unspotted white fur edged with grey, derives originally from the winter coat of the red squirrel. In the Kingdom of England the term became established as a general term for white or almost white fur.<ref name=":0" />
In the original sense, miniver differs from ermine (stoat) fur in that it does not include the distinctive black tails of the stoat but is formed of distinctive grey edged panels cut from the complete fur and framing the white belly. From a red squirrel, which has a greyish-white winter coat with a white underside, '''miniver gros''' is the whole fur including the grey, and '''miniver pure''' retains only the white part. The heraldic fur vair translates the grey into blue and alternates back and belly.<ref>{{cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=glBf_El4Qd4C&q=miniver+red+squirrel&pg=PT464|title= The Dictionary of Fashion History|first1= Valerie|last1= Cumming|first2= C. W.|last2= Cunnington|first3= P. E.|last3= Cunnington|date= 1 September 2010|publisher= Berg|isbn= 9781847887382|via= Google Books}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite web|url= http://lexissearch.arts.manchester.ac.uk/entry.aspx?word=miniver|title= University of Manchester, Lexis of Cloth & Clothing Project, Search Result For: 'miniver'|website= lexissearch.arts.manchester.ac.uk}} </ref><ref> R. Delort, Le commerce des fourrures en occident à la fin du moyen-âge, Rome, 1978. </ref>{{qn|date=April 2019}}
==See also== * {{wiktionary-inline|miniver}}
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