sable coat
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- noun
- /ˈseɪbəl koʊt/
:
abrigo de marta
- full-length sable coat
- Russian sable coat
- length sable coat
Examples
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I had a sable coat before that.
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A sable coat for your mother?
Fiction book (1996) -
We see a sailing Angelo Sepe walk in the door and we see that his wife is wearing a $30,000 sable coat.
Fiction book (1990) -
"Are these your parents?" The photos were of portraits, one of a middle-aged man and the other of an exquisite woman, about 40, shown full length, her sable coat draped dramatically around her.
Fiction book (1996) -
My grandmother always wore a luxurious sable coat during winter parties.
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She admired the beautiful sable coat displayed in the boutique window.
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He gifted his wife an elegant sable coat for their wedding anniversary.
Synonyms
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A warm coat made from animal hair to wear in cold weather
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4.9
An expensive warm coat made from soft shiny mink fur
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A warm coat made from sheep skin with the wool still attached
How Luxurious
Surface Forms
Morphology
Both constituents are literal: 'sable' names a particular (expensive) fur/animal and 'coat' names an outer garment, so the phrase transparently means a coat made from sable fur. The noun+noun/adj+noun compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer this meaning.
Etymology
Sable coat comes from the animal sable, a small animal with very soft, dark fur, and the word coat for an outer garment. In the old fur trade people paid a lot for sable fur, so wearing a sable coat came to show 'wealth' and 'luxury'.