Sable vs Saile - What's the difference?
As adjectives the difference between sable and saile
is that sable
is sandy while saile
As nouns the difference between sable and saile
is that sable
is , shortbread while saile
is salt water, sea water, brine or saile
can be ease, comfort or saile
can be .
As a verb sable
Other Comparisons: What's the difference?
* (in heraldic contexts)
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.
Black garments, especially worn in mourning.
*:Sables wove by destiny.
*: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.
* sable antelope
* sable iron
* sable mouse
Of the black colour sable.
* (rfdate) Young
* 2002 , , chapter 3
- Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, / In rayless majesty, now stretches forth / Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.
(tincture): In blazon, of the colour black.
Made of sable fur.
- 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.
* Random House Dictionary, 2nd Edition, 1987.