sabler

Adjective

sable (comparative sabler, superlative sablest)

1. Sable-coloured, black.
   • When I behold the violet past prime,
     And sable curls all silver'd o'er with white1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 12”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC
2. In blazon, of the colour black.
3. Made of sable fur.
4. Dark, somber.
   • She turned and waved a hand to him, she cried a word, but he didn't hear it, it was a lost word. A sable wraith she was in the parkland, fading away into the dolorous crypt of winter.1922, Michael Arlen, “3/2/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
5. (archaic, literary) Dark-skinned; Black.
   • Some of the sable females, who formerly stood aloof, now began to relax and appear less coy; but my heart was still fixed on London, where I hoped to be ere long.1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 7, in The Interesting Narrative, volume I

   Synonyms:

   black, dusky, inky, sooty, swarthy

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