sable
Example Sentences
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“How beautiful she is in her shining raiment,” he rhapsodizes, “her birch-bark body, her sable bodice, her white cravat, her goffered ruff.”
A blanket of exquisitely soft fur, an ink-black sable, was wrapped around her shoulders, and another just like it was tucked around her legs.
From Literature
In contrast, some parts of the tarantula feel almost like sable fur.
From Los Angeles Times
The cookbook offers helpful guides to the different varieties of herring—from New Catch to schmaltz—smoked salmon and specialty fish such as sturgeon and sable and caviar.
Traditional brushes are made with animal hair from squirrels, goats or sable, a species of weasel.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
