Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A northern Eurasian mink (Mustela sibirica) having a dark brown coat with tawny markings.
- noun The fur of this animal.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The chorok, red sable, or Siberian mink, Putorius sibiricus, about 15 inches long, with a bushy tail 8 or 10 inches long, the fur uniformly buff or tawny, somewhat paler below, varied with black and white on the head.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Among furriers, any of several Asiatic minks; esp.,
Putorius sibiricus , the yellowish brown pelt of which is valued, esp. for the tail, used for making artists' brushes. Trade names for the fur arered sable andTatar sable .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
Siberian weasel , Mustela sibirica - noun The fur of the
Siberian weasel
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I have a sketch box of cake watercolors that has been with me for 12 odd years... along with it a pair of compact kolinsky sable brushes.
The Old Drawing Table James Gurney 2010
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You need brushes that are made of real hair (usually squirrel, pony, goat, weasel, sable, or kolinsky hair), as well as synthetic brushes (nylon or taklon).
Best in Beauty Riku Campo 2010
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Cora had a Hudson seal coat now, with a great kolinsky collar.
Gigolo Edna Ferber 1926
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You saw him, too, in the Pompeian room at the Congress Hotel of a Saturday afternoon when doubtful and roving-eyed matrons in kolinsky capes are wont to congregate to sip pale amber drinks.
Cheerful—By Request Edna Ferber 1926
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Pompeiian room at the Congress Hotel of a Saturday afternoon when doubtful and roving-eyed matrons in kolinsky capes are wont to congregate to sip pale amber drinks.
The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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By the time the limousine swung under the _porte-cochère_ Lana was down and waiting; Mrs. Stanton came hurrying after, ready to defy a January midnight in a cocoon of kolinsky.
All-Wool Morrison Holman Day 1900
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Do you know that, too -- about, well, for instance kolinsky, and nutria, and Russian sable? "
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