erminette

See also: Erminette

English

Etymology

ermine +‎ -ette

Noun

erminette (countable and uncountable, plural erminettes)

1. (dated) The fur of a white rabbit, sheared to resemble ermine.
   • 1915, Evelyn May Clowes Wiehe, The Rose of Youth (page 12)

     But Teddy knew too much of the fur at "Finney's"; the coney-seal, the sable-dyed-squirrel, the erminettes, the beaverines; […]