{{lb|en|tincture}}: In blazon, coloured with a heraldicfur like ermine but with a red hair on each side of the black spots. (This could be discerned only if the spots are very large, and is of very rare and late usage.)
1830, Thomas Robson (engraver.), The British herald, or Cabinet of armorial bearings of the nobility & gentry of Great Britain & Ireland:
Glover, [Norf. 1611; Romney, Kent; and London; also borne by glover, Somerset Herald, Temp. Elizabeth] sa. a chev. erminites, betw. three crescents ar. - Crest, an eagle displ. ar. charged on the breast with three spots of erminites. (Another crest, a dragon pass. az.)
1909, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry, page 78:
From ermine has been evolved the following variations, viz. ermines, erminois, pean, and erminites. "Ermines" is a black field with white ermine spots [...] Planché mentions still another, as does Parker in his "Glossary of Heraldry," namely "erminites," which is supposed to be white, with black ermine spots and a red hair on each side of the spot. I believe there is no instance known of any such fur in British armory. It is not mentioned in Ströhl's "Heraldic Atlas," nor can I find any foreign instance, so that who invented it, or for what purpose it was invented, I cannot say; and I think it should be relegated, with abatements and the seize quartiers of Jesus Christ, to the category of the silly inventions of former heraldic writers, not of former heralds, for I know of no official act which had recognised the existence of erminites.
