1. A sable is a small animal with beautiful dark fur.

2. Artists'brushes are sometimes made of sable.

3. I was silly to get out in the cold without my sable coat.

4. You like mink, or you like sable?

4. Wish you will love and make progress everyday!

5. From the Gerand range are Golden Synthetic Hair brushes, a superb imitation sable, similar to the natural product.

6. Sceptre 404 and 505 are a mix of sable and synthetic providing a long-life brush of high quality.

7. Daler-Rowney offer Bristlewhite pure hog brushes, the well-known Dalon range which are an excellent synthetic version of sable.

8. Try using a fine sable rigger brush which will make very precise lines, although this does require patience!

9. Sable Island seems doomed to wash away, and this pale, pretty dune sparrow will go with it.

10. But I'd have slept with them for sables - Zee brushes not zee furs!

11. A dog may be lightly sabled, with just a scattering of black-tipped hairs over the withers, to one who is so heavily sabled that from a distance he almost appears black.