Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
miniver .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
miniver .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
miniver .
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Examples
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Sinjáb is Persian for the skin of the grey squirrel (Mu. lemmus, the lemming), the meniver, erroneously miniver, (menu vair) as opposed to the ermine = (Mus Armenius, or mustela erminia.)
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So I rose and embraced them and wept over their condition: then I put on one of them the pelisse of sable and on the other the fur coat of meniver and, carrying them to the
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Sinjáb is Persian for the skin of the grey squirrel (Mu. lemmus, the lemming), the meniver, erroneously miniver, (menu vair) as opposed to the ermine = (Mus Armenius, or mustela erminia.)
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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One day, as I sat in my shop, with two fur pelisses on me, one of sable and the other of meniver, [FN#493] for it was the season of winter and the time of the excessive cold, behold, there came up to me my two brothers, each clad in a ragged shirt and nothing more, and their lips were white with cold, and they were shivering.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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So I rose and embraced them and wept over their condition: then I put on one of them the pelisse of sable and on the other the fur coat of meniver and, carrying them to the Hammam, sent thither for each of them a suit of apparel such as befitted a merchant worth a thousand. [
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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