Definitions
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- noun Black garments worn in
mourning . - noun Plural form of
sable .
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Examples
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The Prince, out of grateful remembrance of the Princess Sabella's first gift to him bestowed the right of bearing her name upon the most beautiful of the martens, and that is why they are called sables to this day.
The Green Fairy Book Andrew Lang 1878
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In France, the cookies are known as sables, galettes or palets; in Scotland, they're shortbread; and here, at home, they are shortbread, sand tarts or simply butter cookies.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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The Signor Conte kept us waiting twenty minutes, whilst he shaved and exchanged his dressing-gown for the suit of sables which is the correct raiment of the Latin race.
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Signor Conte kept us waiting twenty minutes, whilst he shaved and exchanged his dressing-gown for the suit of sables which is the correct raiment of the Latin race.
The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton William Henry Burton Wilkins 1897
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The Signor Conte kept us waiting twenty minutes, whilst he shaved and exchanged his dressing-gown for the suit of sables which is the correct raiment of the Latin race.
The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II W. H. Wilkins 1882
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These "sables" are probably eighty or ninety miles in extent, by five to ten broad.
Memoir of the Proposed Territory of Arizona Sylvester Mowry 1850
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Sabella’s first gift to him bestowed the right of bearing her name upon the most beautiful of the martens, and that is why they are called sables to this day.
The Green Fairy Book 2003
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By mid-morning Twitter was abuzz with the fact that the beloved cookbook author and blogger was in town -- en plein air -- passing out french vanilla sables.
Danika Boyle: Sparks From the Culinary Edge Danika Boyle 2011
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By mid-morning Twitter was abuzz with the fact that the beloved cookbook author and blogger was in town -- en plein air -- passing out french vanilla sables.
Danika Boyle: Sparks From the Culinary Edge Danika Boyle 2011
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"I stained my eyebrows with some of the dye common in the harem; concealed my female attire beneath a magnificent pelisse, lined with sables, which fastened from my chin to my feet; pulled a fez low upon my brow; and I sallied forth on my adventurous errand."
G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Great Mosques of European Novelists and Poets (Slideshow) G. Roger Denson 2010
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