Ermine

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Ermine () in heraldry is a fur, a type of tincture, consisting of a white background with a pattern of black shapes representing the winter coat of the stoat (a species of weasel with white fur and a black-tipped tail).

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Ermine (tincture)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Own work using: Meuble hermine.svg: by Sarang, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.