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

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

Her sable coat was pushed back on her shoulders.

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

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

He was dressed, with all his associates, in the sad sables with which Western nations mourn their own gayety.

From From the Easy Chair, series 3 by George William Curtis