zibeline

From French zibeline (“sable”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɪbəˌliːn/

zibeline (countable and uncountable, plural zibelines)

1. A thick, soft woolen fabric with a long nap.
2. The sable, or its pelt.

From Middle French zubeline (“sable”), influenced by Italian zibellino, from Old French sabelin (“sable”), from Middle Low German sabel ; ultimately from a Balto-Slavic word (compare Russian со́боль (sóbolʹ), Polish soból, Czech sobol). Doublet of sable.

• IPA^(key): /zi.blin/

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zibeline f (plural zibelines)

1. sable (animal)
2. zibeline (the fur of a sable)
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     Elle s'arrêta pour laisser passer un cheval noir, piaffant dans les brancards d'un tilbury que conduisait un gentleman en fourrure de zibeline.

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• “zibeline”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• bélizien, Bélizien