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- In blazon, of a supposed fur tincture like ermine but with a red hair on each side of the black spots. (This could be discerned only if the spots were very large, and is of very rare, late (post-medieval), and dubious usage.)
1830, Thomas Robson (engraver.), The British herald, or Cabinet of armorial bearings of the nobility & gentry of Great Britain & Ireland:Glover, 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.
- 1724, Andrew Johnston, Notitia Anglicana: vol. 1, page 55:
- Thus if the Ground be black, and the Spots white, they are Ermines; if Gold the Ground, and the Spots black, Erminois; if Counterly, the Ground be black, and the Spots gold, then is it Pean; and if the Ground white, and the Spots black, with one little red Hair on each ſide, then forſooth, are they Erminites. I believe, the Herald who might boaſt his fancied Improvement in theſe new Inventions, did not fatigue himſelf much about aſſigning Reaſons for Things, elſe he might have been ſo candid as to have told us how Erminites, which being a diminutive of Ermine, naturally ſignifying little Ermines, doth in Heraldry define theſe little red Hairs he ſpeaks of; and how the Addition of the Letter S to Ermine ſhews the reverſing of its Colour, together with the proper and natural meaning of his Erminois and Pean; for I fear now he is dead no other can.
- 1889, Charles Worthy, Practical Heraldry or An Epitome of English Armory, page 22:
- The Furs most commonly used are Ermine, Ermines, Erminois, Erminites, and Pean, all varities of Ermine.