sable > define

noun

• An artist's brush made of sable hairs.
  • synonyms: sable brush, sable's hair pencil
• The expensive dark brown fur of the marten.
• A very dark black.
  • synonyms: coal black, ebony, jet black, pitch black, soot black
• A scarf (or trimming) made of sable.
• Marten of northern Asian forests having luxuriant dark brown fur.
  • synonyms: Martes zibellina

adjective

• Of a dark somewhat brownish black. .

• (n.) The fur of the sable.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) A mourning garment; a funeral robe; -- generally in the plural.
• (n.) The tincture black; -- represented by vertical and horizontal lines crossing each other.
• (a.) Of the color of the sable's fur; dark; black; -- used chiefly in poetry.
• (v.t.) To render sable or dark; to drape darkly or in black.

• Slavic: Black
• English: From the English word meaning "black", derived from the name of the black-furred mammal native to northern Asia, ultimately of Slavic origin