Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA type of fur from a squirrel with a grey back and white belly, much used on garments in the Middle Ages. · An heraldic fur formed by a regular tessellation of bell shapes in two colours, (for example in the image, blue and white).
From Middle English veir, veire, from Old French vair, veir, from the accusative singular masculine form of Latin varius (“variegated”). Not related to Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“squirrel”).
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