sable

Traditional brushes are made with animal hair from squirrels, goats or sable, a species of weasel.

The four largest herbivores wearing GPS collars -- nyala, kudu, sable and elephant -- had no fatalities.

One of the ferrets is described as a sable polecat ferret, and the other is a silver ferret.

“The day after she arrived,” Ms. Smith wrote, “the fur coats, including one sable, one chinchilla and a mink, were missing,” apparently stolen from the actress’s hotel room.

That means baking British-style biscuits — lemon sugar sables, almond orange pillows and ginger molasses cookies — plus slabs of chocolate cake and fluffy ricotta cake topped with her own strawberry compote.