sable

In contrast, some parts of the tarantula feel almost like sable fur.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2025

The cookbook offers helpful guides to the different varieties of herring—from New Catch to schmaltz—smoked salmon and specialty fish such as sturgeon and sable and caviar.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025

The four largest herbivores wearing GPS collars -- nyala, kudu, sable and elephant -- had no fatalities.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 17, 2023

One of the ferrets is described as a sable polecat ferret, and the other is a silver ferret.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2023

The thick sable cloak had been slashed in a dozen places.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

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

I know what Russian sables are, and a Russian samovar, for Ruth has one, an awful ugly thing.

From The Corner House Girls on Palm Island by Thelma Gooch