Noun: vair
Sample Sentences
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Bran wore grey breeches and white doublet, his sleeves and collar trimmed with vair. [1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 323:]
Nouns inflected like vair
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English veir, veire, from Old French vair, veir, from the accusative singular masculine form of Latin varius (“variegated”).
2. Not related to Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“squirrel”). See: Middle English Nouns '
veir', Latin Nouns '
varius'.