sable's hair pencil
- noun
- /ˈseɪbəlz hɛr ˈpɛnsl/
- Specialized
:
pincel de pelo de marta
- She used a sable's hair pencil to add delicate details to her watercolor painting.
Examples
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The soft bristles of the sable's hair pencil glide smoothly across the canvas.
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Many professional artists prefer a sable's hair pencil for its superior control and precision.
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The artist prefers using a sable's hair pencil for fine details.
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I bought a new sable's hair pencil yesterday.
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Many professional artists prefer a sable's hair pencil for its superior control and precision.
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She used a sable's hair pencil to add delicate details to her watercolor painting.
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The soft bristles of the sable's hair pencil glide smoothly across the canvas.
Synonyms
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1.0
A tool with bristles used for cleaning, painting, or arranging hair
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9.0
A fine paint brush made from soft animal hairs for detailed work
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7.0
A painting tool with soft sable hairs that makes fine, flexible points
A long thin paint brush used for painting very fine lines like the ropes on a ship
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase composes a material ('sable's hair') with a tool ('pencil'), so it plausibly denotes a small pointed implement made from sable hair — i.e., an artist's brush — which is partly derivable from the parts. However, 'sable' is a relatively rare lexical item and many B1 learners know 'pencil' only as a writing implement rather than a small brush, so the precise meaning 'artist's brush made of sable hair' is not fully predictable without prior exposure.
Etymology
The noun sable's hair pencil comes from a small artist's brush made with the soft hair of the sable, a small animal, and shaped like a pointed pencil for very fine lines. That's why the term means 'an artist's fine brush used for delicate, precise painting'.