sable brush
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- noun
- /ˈseɪbəl brʌʃ/
- Specialized
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pincel de marta
- For hours at a time, he sat in a precarious position, his heels resting on a bookshelf, the miniature in one hand, the sable brush in the other.
- a fine sable brush
- sable brush to paint
- use sable brushes
Examples
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To create lifelike textures, she prefers using a sable brush because of its flexibility and precision.
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I mean, there are very fine, beautiful sable brushes that which are quite expensive and they have a beautiful shape and they come to a fine point.
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If you have half the talent with lavender oil and a sable brush that you do with a pencil, you will work out nicely.
Fiction book (1992) -
He dipped a fine-pointed sable brush into the India ink.
Academic text (1997) -
I don't want to use my nice sable brushes just to mix and grind and swirl.
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In 1970, after a day's instruction from this artist in the use of oil paints and sable brushes, Kappata began to sell paintings, working on card rather than canvas.
Academic text (1997) -
The artist carefully selected a sable brush for its fine point, allowing for intricate details in his painting.
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For the final touches on her landscape, she reached for her favorite sable brush, knowing it would give her work the subtlety it needed.
Synonyms
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A tool with bristles used for cleaning, painting, or arranging hair
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A fine paint brush made from soft animal hairs for detailed work
A small paint brush with very soft hairs for painting fine details
A long thin paint brush used for painting very fine lines like the ropes on a ship
How Fine
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sable brush comes from the use of hair from the small animal called the sable to make the brush. The soft, very fine sable hairs give the brush a tiny point and a flexible feel, so today sable brush means 'a paintbrush used for fine detail'.