Definitions for Sable

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Sable sa·ble

Spelling: [sey-buh l]

IPA: /ˈseɪ bəl/

Sable is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 92 anagrams from letters in Sable (abels).

Definitions for Sable

noun

1. an Old World weasellike mammal, Mustela zibellina, of cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur.
2. a marten, especially Mustela americana.
3. the fur of the sable.
4. the color black, often being one of the heraldic colors.
5. sables, mourning garments.
6. Cape, a cape on a small island at the SW tip of Nova Scotia, Canada: lighthouse.
7. Cape, a cape at the S tip of Florida.

adjective

1. of the heraldic color sable.
2. made of the fur or hair of the sable.
3. very dark; black.

Origin of Sable

1275-1325; Middle English Old French Middle Low German sabel (compare late Old High German zobel) Slavic or Baltic; compare Russian sóbol', Lithuanian sàbalas; ulterior origin obscure

Examples for Sable

Other dark choices include Jet, Bruno, Bear, sable, Midnight, Inky, and Ebony.

All this flashed into his sight, etched against the sable night as if in flame.

Salmon, tuna, sturgeon, mussels, oysters, and sable are marinated and smoked using hickory and alder wood.

A sable cloud floated in the sky, and at its back the moon sailed.

She held out the sable and Vernon laid it on the couch when he had held it to his face for a moment.

I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls!

Night soon drew her sable curtains, and pinned them with a star.

I inquired, remembering the sable device on argent of which the priest had told me.

Andre-Louis, still in the sable glories of Scaramouche, stood forward.

Knock at the door, whence the sable line of the funeral is next to issue!