Antonyms for sable

Grammar : Adj

Spell : sey-buh l

Phonetic Transcription : ˈseɪ bəl

Definition of sable

Origin : "fur or pelt of the European sable" (Martes zibellina), early 15c., from Middle French sable (also martre sable "sable martin"), in reference to the mammal or its fur, borrowed in Old French from Germanic (cf. Middle Dutch sabel, Middle Low German sabel, Middle High German zobel), ultimately from a Slavic source (cf. Russian, Czech sobol, Polish soból, the name of the animal), "which itself is borrowed from an East-Asiatic language" [Klein], but Russian sources (e.g. Vasmer) find none of the proposed candidates satisfactory.

adj very dark in color

Example sentences :

Knock at the door, whence the sable line of the funeral is next to issue!
Extract from : « Main Street » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

She held out the sable and Vernon laid it on the couch when he had held it to his face for a moment.
Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit

I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls!
Extract from : « Graded Poetry: Second Year » by Various

All this flashed into his sight, etched against the sable night as if in flame.
Extract from : « Raiders Invisible » by Desmond Winter Hall

A sable cloud floated in the sky, and at its back the moon sailed.
Extract from : « A Son of Hagar » by Sir Hall Caine

I inquired, remembering the sable device on argent of which the priest had told me.
Extract from : « The Strolling Saint » by Raphael Sabatini

Andre-Louis, still in the sable glories of Scaramouche, stood forward.
Extract from : « Scaramouche » by Rafael Sabatini

Night soon drew her sable curtains, and pinned them with a star.
Extract from : « Pretty Madcap Dorothy » by Laura Jean Libbey

I cried, but Castro's cloak swooped on my head like a sable wing.
Extract from : « Romance » by Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer

But they did not obey him, for the fates of sable death impelled them.
Extract from : « The Iliad of Homer (1873) » by Homer

Synonyms for sable

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