erminee

• erminée, erminé

Ultimately from Old French erminé. Either inherited from Middle English ermyne (adjective) or borrowed more recently from French erminé(e).

erminee (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) Of a cross: made up of four ermine spots arranged in the shape of a cross.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:erminee.
2. (heraldry) Ermined.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:erminée.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “erminee”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.