sable

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C.1275, Middle English; from Old French sable and martre sable (“sable martin”), in reference to the animal or its fur; from Middle Low German sabel (compare Middle Dutch sabel, Middle High German zobel); ultimately from an Old Slavonic or Baltic word (compare Russian соболь (sóbol'), Polish soból, Czech sobol). Compare also Persian samōr.

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A sable (Martes zibellina)

sable (countable and uncountable; plural sables)

  1. A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Mustela zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur.
  2. The marten, especially Mustela americana.
  3. The fur or pelt of the sable or other species of martens; a coat made from this fur.
  4. An artist's brush made from the fur of the sable.
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  1. (heraldry): A black colour on a coat of arms.
  2. A black colour, resembling the fur of some sables.
    sable colour:    
  3. Template:in the pluralsables Black garments worn in mourning.

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animal
fur
heraldic colour
colour

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sable (comparative more sable, superlative most sable)

  1. Of the black colour sable.
    • 2002, Christopher Paolini, Eragon, chapter 3
      They wound between the wagons to a tent removed from the rest of the traders'. It was crimson at the top and sable at the bottom, with thin triangles of colors stabbing into each other.
  2. (heraldry): In blazon, of the colour black.
  3. Made of sable fur.
  4. Dark, somber.

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colour
of black colour on a coat of arms

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  • Random House Dictionary, 2nd Edition, 1987.

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sable

  1. sabre, saber

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  • IPA: /sɑbl/
  • audio (du sable)
    		(file)

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From Latin sablō, a form of sabulō.

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sable m. (plural sables)

  1. sand
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[edit] Etymology 2

From Old French martre sable "sable marten", an animal. Possibly from an Old Slavonic word; compare with Russian соболь.

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sable m. (plural sables)

  1. The heraldic colour sable; black.

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From sabler

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sable

  1. first-person singular present indicative of sabler
  2. third-person singular present indicative of sabler
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of sabler
  4. first-person singular present subjunctive of sabler
  5. second-person singular imperative of sabler

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sable m. (plural sables)

  1. saber, cutlass

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