sable
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“How beautiful she is in her shining raiment,” he rhapsodizes, “her birch-bark body, her sable bodice, her white cravat, her goffered ruff.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026
In contrast, some parts of the tarantula feel almost like sable fur.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2025
Traditional brushes are made with animal hair from squirrels, goats or sable, a species of weasel.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2024
The four largest herbivores wearing GPS collars -- nyala, kudu, sable and elephant -- had no fatalities.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 17, 2023
The snow was coming down heavier than ever when they left the hall, with Lady Dustin wrapped in sable.
From "A Dance with Dragons" 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
As the numbers of sables and Siberians inevitably dwindled, eighteenth-century Russians ventured into the north Pacific for fresh sources.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
This is also of the marten species and has been frequently offered, when dyed dark, as have baum and stone martens, as Russian sables.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
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