sable

A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur.

Any other marten, especially Martes americana (syn. Mustela americana).

A pelt of fur of a sable or of one of another species of martens; a coat made from this fur.

Lovers dallied upon divans spread with sables.

An artist's brush made from the fur of the sable, the kolinsky sable-hair brush.

A black colour on a coat of arms.

Sable-coloured, black.

When I behold the violet past prime, And sable curls all silver'd o'er with white

Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, / In rayless majesty, now stretches forth / Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.

In blazon, of the colour black.

Made of sable fur.

Dark, somber.

She turned and waved a hand to him, she cried a word, but he didn't hear it, it was a lost word. A sable wraith she was in the parkland, fading away into the dolorous crypt of winter.

Dark-skinned; Black.

Some of the sable females, who formerly stood aloof, now began to relax and appear less coy; but my heart was still fixed on London, where I hoped to be ere long.

Ethnologists are in the wrong / About our sable brothers[.]

A surname.