sable
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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.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026
In contrast, some parts of the tarantula feel almost like sable fur.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2025
Traditional brushes are made with animal hair from squirrels, goats or sable, a species of weasel.
From BBC • Nov. 22, 2024
The four largest herbivores wearing GPS collars -- nyala, kudu, sable and elephant -- had no fatalities.
From Science Daily • Nov. 17, 2023
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 "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
Vocabulary lists containing sable
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"The Minister's Black Veil" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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