sables

noun

1. (form-of, plural)plural of sable
2. (plural, plural-only)Black garments worn in mourning.

adj

1. (alt-of, alternative, uncommon)Alternative form of sable (“heraldry: black”).

   “Argent, a fesse between 3 cressauntes Sables. Sables, a sunne Argent.”

   “The arms of his father, John Smith, were ratified and confirmed by Christopher Barker, Garter King of Arms, on March 12, 1545, and according to the description of them given in the dead, his crest was "an eagle rysing sables, holding in his right claw a pen argent, issuing thereout flames of fyer set upon a wreath argent and azure, mantelles gules, lined argent, botoned gold."”