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Date: 1400-1500
Language: Old French
Origin: Middle Low German sabel

sable

1 noun
     
Related topics: Clothes, Animals
sa‧ble1 [uncountable and countable]
DCCHBA an expensive fur used to make coats etc, or the small animal that this fur comes from
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