Citations:erminee

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English citations of erminee

ermine in tincture?
  • 1867, Works of the Camden Society, page 25:
    "SHIRLEY, James, a famous Poet, my Schoolm', bore paly of 6 Or and azure a Canton erminee." CAMD. SOC. E Towards the end of 1671 ( the year following his []
of a cross: made up of four joined ermine spots
  • 1725, A New Dictionary of Heraldry ... Illustrated with 196 devices on copper ... Revis'd and corrected, with a letter to the publisher, by Mr. James Coates, page 136:
    ERMINEE, a Cross Erminee, is a Cross compos'd of four Ermin Spots plac'd in that Figure. Upton in Latin gives it the Name of Crux erminalis, or eremitica, and speaks of it thus : There is also one very wonderful Cross, which is []
  • 1777, Joseph Nicolson, Richard Burn, The History and Antiquities of the Counties of Westmorland and Cumberland, page 85:
    15. Alan Chambre, barrister at law; now living, and unmarried. The bearings of this family are, 1. Or, a cross erminee, 4 martlets rising Sable : And for an augmentation, on a chief Azure, a snake coronee, devouring a child Proper, betwixt two roses Gules. By the name of Chambre.
  • 1906, Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archeological Society, page 219:
    132 A Chief azure, charged with a Snake coronee devouring a child proper, between 2 Roses gules, and below a Cross erminee, between 4 Martlets rising sable