Real Dictionary

ermine
Ermine is expensive white fur that comes from small animals called stoats.

ermine in American English
any of several northern weasels having brown fur in summer and white fur with a black-tipped tail in winter, as the stoat

ermine in American Englishesp. collectively
adjective: made of, covered, or adorned with ermine
noun: an Old World weasel, Mustela erminea, having in its winter color phase a white coat with black at the tip of the tail

ermine in British English
noun: the stoat in northern regions, where it has a white winter coat with a black-tipped tail