"Bort" Quotes from Famous Books
... xvii.) alludes to furs of Sable (Samr), hermelline (Al-Farwah) and Borts (Turkish) furs of black and red foxes. For Samr see vol. iv. 57. Sinjb is Persian for the skin of the grey squirrel (Mu. lemmus, the lemming), the meniver, erroneously miniver, (menu vair) as opposed to the ermine(Mus Armenius, or mustela erminia.) I never visit England ... — The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 9 • Richard F. Burton |