Color Names

Japanese Sable

Dark fur, nearly black, from the forest-dwelling sable, a small, shadowy mammal.

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Japanese Sable is a dark grey.

It can be described as dark, neutral, shady and dim.

Set in white, because white reads best on it.

Japanese Sable

Sable

The sable is a species of marten, a small omnivorous mammal primarily inhabiting the forest environments of Russia, from the Ural Mountains throughout Siberia, and northern Mongolia. Its habitat also borders eastern Kazakhstan, China, North Korea, and Hokkaido, Japan.

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Sable (tincture)

In heraldry, sable is the tincture equivalent to black. It is one of the five dark tinctures called colours.

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sable

Noun

  1. 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.
  2. Any other marten, especially Martes americana (syn. Mustela americana).

Adjective

  1. Sable-coloured, black.
  2. In blazon, of the colour black.
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