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SABLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marten of northern Asian forests having luxuriant dark brown fur
Synonyms:
Martes zibellina; sable
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sable" is a kind of...):
marten; marten cat (agile slender-bodied arboreal mustelids somewhat larger than weasels)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A scarf (or trimming) made of sable
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("sable" is a kind of...):
scarf (a garment worn around the head or neck or shoulders for warmth or decoration)
Sense 3
Meaning:
An artist's brush made of sable hairs
Synonyms:
sable; sable's hair pencil; sable brush
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("sable" is a kind of...):
brush (an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sable"):
rigger; rigger brush (a long slender pointed sable brush used by artists)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A very dark black
Synonyms:
coal black; ebony; jet black; pitch black; sable; soot black
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("sable" is a kind of...):
black; blackness; inkiness (the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white))
Sense 5
Meaning:
The expensive dark brown fur of the marten
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sable" is a kind of...):
fur; pelt (the dressed hairy coat of a mammal)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of a dark somewhat brownish black
Classified under:
Similar:
achromatic; neutral (having no hue)
Context examples:
The coat averages 1-3 inches in length and comes in white, black and white, wolf gray, wolf sable (red undercoat with dark gray outer coat), or red, often with darker highlights and sometimes with a dark mask or cap. Height: 22-26 inches (56-66 cm.) Weight: 70-95 pounds (32-43 kg.)
(Alaskan Malamute, NCI Thesaurus)
The prince hath other things to think upon, quoth Sir William de Pakington; but if you be a Mackworth you must be a Mackworth of Normanton, and indeed I see now that your coat is sable and ermine.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She broke forth as never moon yet burst from cloud: a hand first penetrated the sable folds and waved them away; then, not a moon, but a white human form shone in the azure, inclining a glorious brow earthward.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
In the opposite corner there sat a very burly and broad-shouldered man, clad in a black jerkin trimmed with sable, with a black velvet cap with curling white feather cocked upon the side of his head.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He lifted up the sable waves of hair which lay horizontally over his brow, and showed a solid enough mass of intellectual organs, but an abrupt deficiency where the suave sign of benevolence should have risen.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Here were the gold mullets of the Pakingtons, the sable and ermine of the Mackworths, the scarlet bars of the Wakes, the gold and blue of the Grosvenors, the cinque-foils of the Cliftons, the annulets of the Musgraves, the silver pinions of the Beauchamps, the crosses of the Molineaux, the bloody chevron of the Woodhouses, the red and silver of the Worsleys, the swords of the Clarks, the boars'-heads of the Lucies, the crescents of the Boyntons, and the wolf and dagger of the Lipscombs.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Two thin hands, joined under the forehead, and supporting it, drew up before the lower features a sable veil, a brow quite bloodless, white as bone, and an eye hollow and fixed, blank of meaning but for the glassiness of despair, alone were visible.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
