Vair

Chamber's Twientieth Century Dictionary · 1908 · p. 119

vār, n. ( her. ) a kind of fur, the skin of the squirrel, bluish-gray on the back and white on the belly, represented by blue and white shields or bells in horizontal rows.— adjs. Vairé , Vairy (vā′ri), charged or variegated with vair. [O. Fr.,—L. varius , variegated.]