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▪ I. vairy, a. (and n.)|ˈvɛərɪ|
Forms: α. 5 varri, 6–7 varrye (7 -ie), varry, 6–7, 9 varrey. β. 7–9 vairy, 8 vary. See also verry a.
[a. OF. vairy, f. vair vair n.
The mod.F. form vairée has been employed in some heraldic books.]
1. Her. Of a coat, charge, etc.: Varied or variegated with two or more colours; having divisions and tinctures like those of vair.
Some writers have drawn a distinction between vair and vairy, using the latter when tinctures other than argent and azure are blazoned.
α1486Bk. St. Albans, Her. B iv b, Thre cootarmuris be ther called restryall in armys. Oon is whan a cootarmure is varri of dyuerse colowris to the poynt. 1562Legh Armorie 52 b, A playne crosse, varrye. Ibid. 131 b, The eight doubling is Varry, and is so properly called, although it be Or, and Vert, or els Vert and Or. 1592W. Wyrley Armorie, Ld. Chandos 97 A patie crosse of red in gold he bare On which fiue losinges varrey placed are. 1610J. Guillim Her. (1611) i. iv. 15 As for the rest, viz. Verry and Varrye, they are meere fantasies and improper termes. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. vi. 321 Tavestock in Devon shire gave Varrey Or and Azure, on a Chiefe Or, two Mulletts. Gules. 1656Blount Glossogr., Varry..signifies that which is diversified with argent and azure. c1828Berry Encycl. Her. I. Gloss., Varrey in point.
β1706Lond. Gaz. No. 4217/4 The second Vary, a Canton. 1762tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. V. 235 The arms of Oettingen are vairy ruby and a shield saphire. 1868Cussans Her. iii. 53 If the field were Or, and the bells Gules, it would be blazoned as Vairy, Or and Gules.
†b. vairy-cuppy, vairy tassa (see quots.). Obs.
1610J. Guillim Her. i. iv. (1611) 15 This sort of furre or doubling was..of some old Heralds called varry cuppy and varry tassa. 1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Vairy Coppy, or Potent Counter-Potent, is a Bearing in Heraldry. 1766Porny Heraldry ii. §ii. 27 Potent-counter-potent, anciently called Vairy-cuppy, is when the Field is filled with Crutches or Potents counter-placed.
¶2. Furred with vair. Also used as if the name of a material.
1728Chambers Cycl. s.v., Vairy gowns are observed by Julius Pollux to have been the habit of the antient Gauls, as Ermins were of the Armenians. 1861Ainsworth Const. Tower (1862) 187 Wrapped in cerecloth of many folds, and in an outer cover of cloth of vairy and velvet,..the corpse was laid out.
▪ II. vairy
(weasel, stoat): see vair n. 2. |