Sabre vs Sable - What's the difference?
sabre | sable |
(UK, Canada) A light sword, sharp along the front edge, part of the back edge, and at the point.
(UK, Canada, fencing) A modern fencing sword modeled after the sabre.
(UK, Canada, transitive) To hit or kill with a sabre.
A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina , from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur ().
The marten, especially .
The fur or pelt of the sable or other species of martens; a coat made from this fur.
*1928 , (Virginia Woolf),
*:Lovers dallied upon divans spread with sables .
An artist's brush made from the fur of the sable ().
(lb) A black colour on a coat of arms.
A black colour, resembling the fur of some sables.
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Black garments, especially worn in mourning.
*(rfdate) Young
*:Sables wove by destiny.
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*:a delighted shout from the children swung him toward the door again. His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables , radiant with surprise. ¶ "Phil! You! Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow!" recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.
Of the black colour sable.
* (rfdate) Young
* 2002 , , chapter 3
(tincture): In blazon, of the colour black.
Made of sable fur.
Dark, somber.
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Sable is a alternative form of sabre.
As nouns the difference between sabre and sable
is that sabre is a light sword, sharp along the front edge, part of the back edge, and at the point while sable is a small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur (Wikipedia).As a verb sabre
is to hit or kill with a sabre.As an adjective sable is
of the black colour sable.sabre
English
(wikipedia sabre)Alternative forms
* (chiefly US) saberNoun
(en noun)Usage notes
This spelling has become relatively common in the United States due to the hockey team as well as the occasional tendency to use British spellings for archaic nouns (compare theater versus theatre).Verb
(sabr)Quotations
* (English Citations of "sabre")See also
* sabrer * sabreurAnagrams
* ----sable
English
Alternative forms
* (in heraldic contexts)Noun
Derived terms
* sable antelope * sablefish * sable iron * sable mouseAdjective
(en adjective)- Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, / In rayless majesty, now stretches forth / Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.
- They wound between the wagons to a tent removed from the rest of the traders'. It was crimson at the top and sable at the bottom, with thin triangles of colors stabbing into each other.