Some kind of fur; ? the fur of the squirrel taken at Michaelmas.

A fur obtained from a variety of squirrel with grey back and white belly, much used in the 13th and 14th centuries as a trimming or lining for…

A kind of fur, now always plain white, used esp. as a lining and trimming for ceremonial costumes and formerly in the making of certain kinds of hat…

A kind of fur, apparently obtained from some foreign species of the squirrel; now, commercially, applied especially to the fur of the grey or…

squirrel pelts trimmed to show only the white belly fur (cf. pured grey n.).

‘Pured’ or pure white miniver, used in the furring of garments. Cf. pured, n.

Fur trimmed to show only one colour; spec. = pured miniver n. at compounds. Cf. purray, n. Obsolete.

Without article, in collective sense; also = squirrel-skin, squirrel-fur.

A type of fur, probably the summer fur of the squirrel.

‘Pured’ fur: see pured, n., purray, n. Obsolete.

The fur of the marten or grey squirrel, used for clothing or as a trimming. Obsolete.

elliptical. A variety of squirrel skin. Also, squirrel-fur in fashionable use (in the 19th and 20th cent.). Also elliptical, a coat of squirrel fur.