Definition of sable:

part of speech: adjective

Made of sable; dark; black.

part of speech: noun

Animal of the weasel kind, and its fine black fur.

Common misspellings * :

• satble (100.0%)

Usage examples :

• And I saw the buckles sable on a memorial window in the chapel erected to another sister- also a nun- they are a terribly pious family. "The Light of Scarthey", - Egerton Castle

• But they did not obey him, for the fates of sable death impelled them. "The Iliad of Homer (1873)", - Homer

• They married him to one of the queen's ladies, and granted him all Acadia, which he had only to demand from his son, if he would turn it over to England and declare himself an English subject I can yet see his ships as they rounded Cape Sable and the face of my lord when he read his father's summons to surrender the claims of France. "The Lady of Fort St. John", - Mary Hartwell Catherwood