sable
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- noun
- /ˈseɪbəl/
- Archaic
- For blazon, his wool sweater sable displays chevrons indented in azure.
- sable arms
- argent and sable
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Examples
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Sea wind separated the three colors of her hair: again, she was silver and gold and sable.
Fiction book (1990) -
The coat was made of fine, sable fabric that shimmered under the light.
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Argent on a chevron sable.
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"Inspired by the Orient and bordered in sable.
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A golden dome split into eight jeweled wedges on a sable ring.
Fiction book (2002) -
The former count had stenciled the arms of the tennis guild: sable, a tennis racquet proper; in a cross, four tennis balls of the same.
Fiction book (1992) -
From Irtha, one gets black sable, black foxes, lead, and mercury (Ibn Hawqal 397).
Academic text (2005) -
In heraldry, a sable shield symbolizes constancy and grief.
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The artist used sable paint to capture the depth of the night sky.
Synonyms
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A state with no light, as in the night
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Completely dark with no light at all
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A very dark colour like shiny coal
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Very dark like the color of coal
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A very dark black color like deep night
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A very dark color like the black dust from a fire
Compounds
- Specialized
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A painting tool with soft sable hairs that makes fine, flexible points
- South African
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A large African animal like a deer with a dark coat and long curved horns
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An island at the southern tip of Nova Scotia, Canada, known for many seabirds and its sea history
How Dark
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sable for a very dark black color comes from the name of a small animal with rich, dark fur; that animal's name came into English from Russian sobol, and people used the deep color of the fur as the name for the shade, so sable now means a very dark colour.