VAIR

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1842 · p. 48

In Heraldry, one of the furs employed in blazonry. It is supposed to represent the skin of a small squirrel. It is always white and blue, unle otherwise opecified in the blazon; as vair of or and azure, vair of ermine and gules, . Vair appears to be derived from varius. Vairy is the pattern of vair with more than two colours. [s. 1294]