sables

See also: sablés

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈseɪbəlz/

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Noun

sables

1. plural of sable

Noun

sables pl (plural only)

1. Black garments worn in mourning.

Adjective

sables

1. (uncommon) Alternative form of sable (“heraldry: black”)
   • 1899, Thomas Abingdon, A Survey of Worcestershire, page 465:

     Argent, a fesse between 3 cressauntes Sables. Sables, a sunne Argent.

   • 1899, The Genealogical Magazine, page 126:

     […] this letter H sables and to the Creast upon the Healme on a wreathe silver & sables a Turtle-dove azure manteled gules doubled silver. Fifthly the Greke Reader the field silver & sables & perty^[sic] per cheveron in the first these two Greke letters Α Alpha and Ω Omega sables & in the second a Cicade or Grasshoper silver […] Rob: Cooke alias Clarencieulx Roy D'Armes / The foregoing is taken from Baker's transcript of the original grant (v. Baker's MSS. in the University Library, Cambridge, vol. xxvi., p. 27).

   • 1900, Ex Libris Society (London, England), Journal, page 33:

     The arms of his father, John Smith, were ratified and confirmed by Christopher Barker, Garter King of Arms, on March 12, 1545, and according to the description of them given in the dead, his crest was "an eagle rysing sables, holding in his right claw a pen argent, issuing thereout flames of fyer set upon a wreath argent and azure, mantelles gules, lined argent, botoned gold."

References

• Random House Dictionary, 2nd Edition, 1987.

Anagrams

• Sabels

Asturian

Noun

sables

1. plural of sable

Catalan

Noun

sables

1. plural of sable

Franco-Provençal

Noun

sables

1. plural of sabla

French

Noun

sables ?

1. plural of sable

Anagrams

• blessa

Spanish

Adjective

sables m pl or f pl

1. plural of sable

Noun

sables m pl

1. plural of sable