sa·ble

(sā′bəl)

a. A mustelid mammal (Martes zibellina) of northern Eurasia, having soft dark commercially valuable fur.

b. The pelt or fur of this animal.

c. The similar fur of other species of martens.

a. The color black, especially in heraldry.

b. sables Black garments worn in mourning.

3. A grayish yellowish brown.

4. A sablefish.

adj.

1. Of a grayish yellowish brown.

2. Of the color black, as in heraldry or mourning.

3. Dark; somber.

4. Of the fur of the sable: a sable coat.

[Middle English, from Old French, sable fur, from an Old Low Franconian source akin to Middle High German sabel, sable, ultimately from a Slavic source such as Old Russian sobolĭ; akin to Middle Persian samōr and Parthian simōr.]

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sable

(ˈseɪbəl)

n, pl -bles or -ble

1. (Animals) a marten, Martes zibellina, of N Asian forests, with dark brown luxuriant fur.

2. (Textiles)

a. the highly valued fur of this animal

b. (as modifier): a sable coat.

3. (Textiles) American sable the brown, slightly less valuable fur of the American marten, Martes americana

4. (Colours) the colour of sable fur: a dark brown to yellowish-brown colour

adj

5. (Colours) of the colour of sable fur

6. black; dark; gloomy

7. (Heraldry) (usually postpositive) heraldry of the colour black

[C15: from Old French, from Old High German zobel, of Slavic origin; related to Russian sobol', Polish sobol]

Sable

(ˈseɪbəl)

1. (Placename) a cape at the S tip of Florida: the southernmost point of continental US

2. (Placename) the southernmost point of Nova Scotia, Canada

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sa•ble

(ˈseɪ bəl)

n., pl. -bles, (esp. collectively for 1, 2 ) -ble, n.

1. a dark-colored Eurasian marten, Martes zibellina, valued for its fur.

2. a North American marten, Martes americana.

3. the fur of the sable.

4. the color black.

5. sables, black mourning garments.

adj.

6. of the color black.

7. made of sable fur.

8. very dark.

[1275–1325; < Old French < Middle Low German sabel (compare late Old High German zobel) < Slavic or Baltic]

Sa•ble

(ˈseɪ bəl)

n. Cape,

1. a cape on a small island at the SW tip of Nova Scotia, Canada: lighthouse.

2. a cape at the S tip of Florida.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	sable - an artist's brush made of sable hairs sable brush, sable's hair pencil brush - an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle rigger brush, rigger - a long slender pointed sable brush used by artists
	2.	sable - the expensive dark brown fur of the marten fur, pelt - the dressed hairy coat of a mammal
	3.	sable - a very dark black coal black, ebony, jet black, pitch black, soot black black, blackness, inkiness - the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
	4.	sable - a scarf (or trimming) made of sable scarf - a garment worn around the head or neck or shoulders for warmth or decoration
	5.	sable - marten of northern Asian forests having luxuriant dark brown fur Martes zibellina marten, marten cat - agile slender-bodied arboreal mustelids somewhat larger than weasels
Adj.	1.	sable - of a dark somewhat brownish black achromatic, neutral - having no hue; "neutral colors like black or white"

sable

noun & adjective

1. black, jet, raven, jetty, ebony, ebon (poetic) thick sable lashes see shades from black to white

adjective

1. dark, black, dim, gloomy, dismal, dreary, sombre, shadowy, sepulchral, crepuscular, Stygian, tenebrous Night enveloped me in its sable mantle.

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sable

adjective

Of the darkest achromatic visual value:

black, ebon, ebony, inky, jet, jetty, onyx, pitch-black, pitchy, sooty.

Translations

سَمّور سيبيريافَرْوَة السَّمّور

sobol

zobelzobelpels

Schwarz Zobel Zobelfell

ζιμπελίνα

zibelo

sable

soopeli

zibeline martre sable

crna

cobolycobolyprémfekete

safalafeldursafali

nero pelliccia di zibellino zibellino

sabalassabalo

sabuļādasabulis

czarnysoból

negru

soboľsobolí

svart

samur

黑貂黑貂皮

sable

[ˈseɪbl]

A. N (= fur) → marta f cibelina or cebellina; (= colour) → negro m

B. ADJ → negro

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sable

n → Zobel m; (= fur) → Zobelfell nt → or -pelz m; (liter, = colour) → Schwarz nt

adj → Zobel-; (liter, = black) → schwarz; sable coat → Zobelmantel m

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sable

[ˈseɪbl]

1. n

a. (animal, fur) → zibellino

b. (liter) (colour) → nero

2. adj (fur) → di zibellino; (brush) → di martora

sable

(ˈseibl) noun

1. a kind of small animal found in Arctic regions, valued for its glossy fur.

2. its fur. Artists' brushes are sometimes made of sable; (also adjective) a sable coat.

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But to the chamber which lies most westwardly of the seven, there are now none of the maskers who venture; for the night is waning away; and there flows a ruddier light through the blood-coloured panes; and the blackness of the sable drapery appals; and to him whose foot falls upon the sable carpet, there comes from the near clock of ebony a muffled peal more solemnly emphatic than any which reaches their ears who indulged in the more remote gaieties of the other apartments.

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On the grass there lay a sable antelope bull-- the most beautiful of all the African antelopes--quite dead, and transfixed by its great curved horns was a magnificent black-maned lion, also dead.

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SABLE ISLAND--Green single barbette-tower freighter, number indistinguishable, up-ended, and fore-tank pierced after collision, passed 300-ft.

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The same happy, smiling Circassian, with mustache and beaming eyes looking up from under a sable hood, was still sitting there, and that Circassian was Sonya, and that Sonya was certainly his future happy and loving wife.

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Here, indeed, in the sable simplicity that generally characterised the Puritanic modes of dress, there might be an infrequent call for the finer productions of her handiwork.

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Tashtego's long, lean, sable hair, his high cheek bones, and black rounding eyes --for an Indian, Oriental in their largeness, but Antarctic in their glittering expression --all this sufficiently proclaimed him an inheritor of the unvitiated blood of those proud warrior hunters, who, in quest of the great New England moose, had scoured, bow in hand, the aboriginal forests of the main.

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But already the sable wing was before the old man's eyes; the long hooked bill at his head: with a scream, the black hawk darted away with his prize.

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"A roaring, ranting, sleek man-thief, Who lived on mutton, veal, and beef, Yet never would afford relief To needy, sable sons of grief, Was big with heavenly union.

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To the north-eastward, the glare of snow lay under the starlight of the sable sky and I could see an undulating crest of hillocks pinkish white.

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The brilliancy of her eyes, the superb arch of her eyebrows, her well-formed aquiline nose, her teeth as white as pearl, and the profusion of her sable tresses, which, each arranged in its own little spiral of twisted curls, fell down upon as much of a lovely neck and bosom as a simarre of the richest Persian silk, exhibiting flowers in their natural colours embossed upon a purple ground, permitted to be visible all these constituted a combination of loveliness, which yielded not to the most beautiful of the maidens who surrounded her.

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No sooner had he spoken than Alice Vane glided from her station, and pressing one hand across her eyes, with the other snatched away the sable curtain that concealed the portrait.

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He had offered to the younger and more humble marks men divers birds of an inferior quality, and some shooting had already taken place, much to the pecuniary advantage of the sable owner of the game.

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