sable
1. an artist's brush made of sable hairs (Freq. 2) • Syn: sable brush, sable's hair pencil • Hypernyms: brush • Hyponyms: rigger, rigger brush 2. the expensive dark brown fur of the marten • Hypernyms: fur, pelt 3. a very dark black • Syn: coal black, ebony, jet black, pitch black, soot black • Derivationally related forms: ebonize (for: ebony) • Hypernyms: black, blackness, inkiness 4. marten of northern Asian forests having luxuriant dark brown fur • Syn: Martes zibellina • Hypernyms: marten, marten cat 5. a scarf (or trimming) made of sable • Hypernyms: scarf
of a dark somewhat brownish black • Similar to: achromatic, neutral
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