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  • Image shows a seal depicting several mythical creatures fighting.
    In heraldry: The field

    …or one of the furs ermine (a white field with black spots), ermines (a black field with white spots), erminois (gold field with black spots), pean (black field with gold spots), or vair (alternating blue and white figures mimicking the fur of a species of squirrel). Two other colors appear…

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