Definition of sable
What does the word sable mean?
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part of speech: noun, adjective
Black as a heraldic colour; (poet., rhet.) the colour black; (poet. & rhet.; pl.) mourning garments, whence sabled a.; (also s. antelope) large stout-horned antelope of which male is black. (Adj., poet. & rhet.) black, dusky, gloomy, dread, (of negro, sky, sea, night, Fate, &c.); hence sably adv. [French]
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part of speech: noun
Small brown-furred arctic& subarctic carnivorous quadruped allied to martens; its skin or fur. [old French]
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part of speech: noun
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