English

Alternative forms

• meniver, menyvere

Noun

miniver ‎(plural minivers)

1. A light gray or white fur used to trim the robes of judges or state executives, also used in medieval times.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter j, in Le Morte Darthur, book XII:

     Thenne came forth a lykely knyghte and wel apparaylled in scarlet furred with myneuer / And anone as he sawe syr launcelot / he demed that he shold be oute of his wytte / And thenne he said with fayre speche good man leye doune that swerd / for as me semeth / thow haddest more nede of slepe and of warme clothes / than to welde that swerd / As for that said syr Launcelot come not to nyȝ for and thow doo wete thou wel I will slee the

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1. ↑ (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (menu, page 245, column 3)

• miniver in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913