miniver
/ˈmɪnɪvə
/noun [mass noun]
Plain white fur used for lining or trimming clothes: the doctor’s miniver-trimmed hat...
- He had no light-weight mantle, only the green one trimmed with gold wire and lined with miniver.
- A fifteenth-century observer described artist's brushes made of miniver fur mounted in quill handles.
Origin
Middle English: from Old French menu vair 'little vair', from menu 'little' + vair 'squirrel fur' (see vair).
Rhymes
- (from) door to door
- from farm to fork (or table)
- from first to last
- (from) go to whoa
- (from) hand to mouth
- from head to toe (or foot)
- from hence
- from hero to zero
- fromm
- from memory
- Fromm, Erich
- from nature
- from now (or then etc.) on
- from on high
- from (or out of) nowhere
- from overseas
- from pillar to post
- (from) rags to riches
- from scratch
- from side to side
- unredacted
- unrede
- unredeemable
- unredeemed
- unredeemedly