sable

“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

Its sable eyes did not immediately rest on her, but on the bracelet, Vajra.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

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

Within were more wrappings of tissue paper, and these undone disclosed a large tippet or stole and a big muff of the order usually called “granny,” made of the finest dark sables.

From The Little Vanities of Mrs. Whittaker A Novel by John Strange Winter