sable

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1. sable - Noun

2. sable - Adjective

3. sable - Verb

4. sable - Adjective Satellite

5. Sable - Proper noun

Meaning

A carnivorous animal of the Weasel family (Mustela zibellina) native of the northern latitudes of Europe, Asia, and America, -- noted for its fine, soft, and valuable fur.

The fur of the sable.

A mourning garment; a funeral robe; -- generally in the plural.

The tincture black; -- represented by vertical and horizontal lines crossing each other.

Of the color of the sable's fur; dark; black; -- used chiefly in poetry.

To render sable or dark; to drape darkly or in black.

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Night, sable goddess from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Edward Young

A newspaper reported I spend $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sable underwear. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Now had Aurora displayed her mantle over the blushing skies, and dark night withdrawn her sable veil. Miguel de Cervantes

Care-Charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born, Relieve my languish, and restore the light; With dark forgetting of my care return. And let the day be time enough to mourn The shipwreck of my ill adventured youth. Samuel Daniel

Phœbus, arise! And paint the sable skies With azure, white, and red. William Drummond of Hawthornden

I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls! I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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