Crossword-Solution: SABLE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sable | n. | A carnivorous animal of the Weasel family (Mustela zibellina) native of the northern latitudes of Europe, Asia, and America, -- noted for its fine, soft, and valuable fur. |
| Sable | n. | The fur of the sable. |
| Sable | n. | A mourning garment; a funeral robe; -- generally in the plural. |
| Sable | n. | The tincture black; -- represented by vertical and horizontal lines crossing each other. |
| Sable | a. | Of the color of the sable's fur; dark; black; -- used chiefly in poetry. |
| Sable | v. t. | To render sable or dark; to drape darkly or in black. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SABLE | anagram | ABELS, ABLES, BALES, BASEL, BASLE, BEALS, BELAS, BLAES, BLASE, ELBAS |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with SABLE (5)
There he lay in all his armor; On each side a shield to guard him, Plates of bone upon his forehead, Down his sides and back and shoulders Plates of bone with spines projecting Painted was he with his war-paints, Stripes of yellow, red, and azure, Spots of brown and spots of sable; And he lay there on the bottom, Fanning with his fins of purple, As above him Hiawatha In his birch canoe came sailing, With his fishing-line of cedar.
Here, one would suppose, might have been sorrow enough to imbue the sunniest disposition through and through with a sable tinge.
DOUBT Marguerite Blakeney had watched the slight sable-clad figure of Chauvelin, as he worked his way through the ball-room.
Now and then a maid-servant, neatly dressed, and now the shining sable face of a slave, might be seen bustling across the windows, in the lower part of the house.
The Englishman, finally concluding that he was a prisoner, saw no alternative open but to accompany his captor, and thus they traveled slowly through the jungle while the sable mantle of the impenetrable forest night fell about them, and the stealthy footfalls of padded paws mingled with the breaking of twigs and the wild calls of the savage life that Clayton felt closing in upon him.
Quotes with SABLE (3)
Sable hair bisected his pecs and arrowed down to the straight and unequivocal statement of his returned interest. Forcing my gaze to his face, I said, "I really don't think we have time for that.""You know that, and I know that, but HE doesn't believe it.""Believe it," I told HIM. J.X.'s mouth tugged into one of those heart-stopping smiles. "Maybe you should whisper in his ear.
Achieving the state of SABLE is not, as many people who live with these knitters believe, a reason to stop buying yarn, but for the knitter it is an indication to write a will, bequeathing the stash to an appropriate heir.
When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; When I behold the violet past prime, And sable curls all silver'd o'er with white; When lofty trees I see barren of leaves Which erst from heat did canopy the herd, And summer's green all girded up in sheaves Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard, Then of thy beauty do I question make, That thou among the wastes of time must go, Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 271 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).