sable
noun
an Old World weasellike mammal, Mustela zibellina, of cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific Islands, valued for its dark brown fur.
sables
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pluralof sable.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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That means baking British-style biscuits — lemon sugar sables, almond orange pillows and ginger molasses cookies — plus slabs of chocolate cake and fluffy ricotta cake topped with her own strawberry compote.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 2022
It contains nearly 20 percent of the world’s unfrozen fresh water and is so abundant in wildlife — bears, foxes, sables, rare and endangered freshwater seals — that Unesco calls it “the Galápagos of Russia.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 8, 2019
The station had its drawers and checklists: there were sorbets to spin and sables to bake off, pears to poach and oranges to carve into supremes.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2018
Pursuing sables and other fur-bearing animals across the vast cold forests of northern Asia, Russian merchants reached the Pacific in the early seventeenth century, during the early decades of English settlement in Virginia.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
"He's merely a nice, useful boy——" "Rather vapid, don't you think?" observed a thin young woman in sables and an abundance of front teeth.
From The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
