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1. The expensive dark brown fur of the marten
    
2. An artist's brush made of sable hairs
   - sable brush, sable's hair pencil
    
3. A very dark black
   - coal black, ebony, jet black, pitch black, soot black
    
4. A scarf (or trimming) made of sable
    
5. Marten of northern Asian forests having luxuriant dark brown fur
   - Martes zibellina

1. Of a dark somewhat brownish black

Derived forms: sables

See also: achromatic, neutral

Type of: black, blackness, brush, fur, inkiness, marten, marten cat, pelt, scarf

Encyclopedia: Sable, Ontario