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 German Wildwerker, a worker in skins, or furrier) is expressed in a punning or canting form on the dexter side of the shield. This Conrad the Furrier was Burgomaster of Vienna 1340-43.

A considerable number of British and foreign families bear Vair only; such are and, above mentioned; , Dukes de ;  and , in France; , in Switzerland; ,  (Brittany);  in Spain;  (Brittany);  (Savoy);  (Florence). Counter vair is borne by of Naples; by, , and , of France. of Tournay uses: de Contre vair, à lac otice de gueules brochante sur le tout.

Mr. Woodward, in his "Treatise on Heraldry," writes: "Two curious forms of Vair occasionally met with in Italian or French coats are known as Plumeté and Papelonné.

In Plumeté the field is apparently covered with feathers. Plumeté d'argent et d'azur is the coat of Ceba (note that these are the tinctures of Vair); of Udine, Plumeté au natural (but the  of Florence bore: Vairé argent and sable with a bordure chequy or and azure);  of Brabant: Plumeté or and sable. In the arms of the of Padua, the  of Milan, the, , and  of Verona, each feather of the plumeté is said to be charged with an ermine spot sable.

The bearing of is more frequently found; in it the field is covered with what appear to be scales, the heraldic term papelonné being derived from a supposed resemblance of these scales to the wings of butterflies; for example the coat of : Gules, papelonné argent. at Besançon bears: Papelonné d'or et de sable. It is worthy of note that Donzé of Lorraine used: Gules, three bars wavy or. The of Lausanne are said to bear: de Gueules papelonné d'argent, and on a chief of the last a rose of the first, but the coat is otherwise blazoned: Vaire gules and or, &c. The coat of, or , in Picardy, of d'Hermine papelonné de