Usually means: Dark-colored fur from martens.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. sable: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sable, sable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sable: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sable: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sable, sable: Wordnik
  7. sable: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Sable, sable: Wiktionary
  9. sable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sable: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sable: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Sable, sable: Dictionary.com
  13. sable (1), sable (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sable: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. SABLE, Sable (TV series), Sable (color), Sable (disambiguation), Sable (heraldry), Sable (marten), Sable (tincture), Sable (wrestler), Sable: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sable: Rhymezone
  19. Sable, sable (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sable: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. sable: Free Dictionary
  22. sable: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. sable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Sable, sable: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. Sable: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. Sable: Who2
  27. sable: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sable: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Paris Cookbook (No longer online)
  3. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sable (marten), sable: Encyclopedia

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  2. Sable (marten), sable: Medical dictionary

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  2. SABLE: Acronym Finder

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  1. Sable: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (countable) 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 (Wikipedia).
noun:  (countable) Any other marten, especially Martes americana (syn. Mustela americana).
noun:  (countable and uncountable) A pelt of fur of a sable or of one of another species of martens; a coat made from this fur.
noun:  (countable) An artist's brush made from the fur of the sable (Wikipedia).
noun:  (heraldry) A black colour on a coat of arms (Wikipedia).
noun:  (countable and uncountable) A dark brown colour, resembling the fur of some sables.
noun:  (in the plural, sables) Black garments, especially worn in mourning.
noun:  The sablefish.
adjective:  Of the black colour sable.
adjective:  (heraldry): In blazon, of the colour black.
adjective:  Made of sable fur.
adjective:  Dark, somber.
adjective:  (obsolete, literary) Dark-skinned; black.
noun:  A surname.

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